ABSTRACT

Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments is a preliminary contribution to the establishment of re-embodiments as a theoretical strand within legal and ecological theory, and philosophy. Re-embodiments are all those contemporary practices and processes that exceed the epistemic horizon of modernity. As such, they offer a plurality of alternative modes of theory and practice that seek to counteract the ecocidal tendencies of the Anthropocene. The collection comprises eleven contributions approaching re-embodiments from a multiplicity of fields, including legal theory, eco-philosophy, eco-feminism and anthropology. The contributions are organized into three parts: ‘Beyond Modernity’, ‘The Sacred Dimension’ and ‘The Legal Dimension’. The collection is opened by a comprehensive introduction that situates re-embodiments in theoretical context. Whilst closely bound with embodiment and new materialist theory, this book contributes a unique voice that echoes diverse political processes contemporaneous to our times. Written in an elegant and accessible language, the book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and established scholars alike seeking to understand and take re-embodiments further, both politically and theoretically.

chapter |24 pages

Introduction

Exploring re-embodiments

part |57 pages

Beyond modernity

chapter |20 pages

Beyond modernism and postmodernism

The narrative of the age of re-embodiments

chapter |18 pages

What is the age of re-embodiments?

Or, the victorious assertion of loci standi over the barbarism of instrumenta movendi

chapter |17 pages

Reclaiming authenticity and ethics

A critique of eurocentric disembodiment and ecofeminist vision of re-embodiment 1

part |76 pages

The sacred dimension

chapter |21 pages

Towards a deconstruction of leadership and cosmology

The re-embodiment of the sacred

chapter |13 pages

From enlightenment to enchantment

Changing the question

chapter |20 pages

(Re)embodying which body?

Philosophical, cross-cultural and personal reflections on corporeality

chapter |20 pages

The knowing body

Eco-paganism as an embodying practice

part |85 pages

The legal dimension

chapter |31 pages

Re-embodying law

Transversal ecology and the commons

chapter |20 pages

Graffiti artists and guerrilla gardeners

Challenging our understandings of Property Law

chapter |15 pages

Autonomous legal persons and interconnected ecosystems

An ‘Ecological' Self towards the age of re-embodiment

chapter |17 pages

Beyond legal facts and discourses

Towards a social-ecological production of the legal