Ecological Reasonings (Book)

This book is the condensation of more than 8 years of researching and going mad with reasonings. After several attempts, it also became my PhD (supervised by Arno Böhler and Didier Debaise) and is now available as a book. It is the philosophical pillar for many of my earlier and later works and you can find a little bit more about works that have evolved around it in this old page around it here. 

The book came out with Bloomsbury Academic and I must admit I am not happy with how they are operating. If you are having trouble getting the book (for its high price or other reasons) please drop me an email and I can see what I can do

What role does 'reason' have in tackling the catastrophic ecological situation of the early 21st-century? Can the concept shrug off its problematic role in Western epistemology and find a new place and function in dealing with the Anthropocene? In Ecological Reasonings, Kilian Jörg argues that we ignore reason at our peril.

This book revolves around the idea that in order to salvage reason, we must include it in the current move to pluralize the key concepts of Western philosophy – where we once talked of nature, science and technology, we now talk about natures, sciences, and technologies. In the same way, it is time to reconceptualize reason as reasonings – a diverse and multi-perspectival wealth of interactions that can create a vital alternative to the mainstream academic thought. Drawing on a broad span of theoretical traditions including new materialism, eco-feminism, embodied performance and speculative philosophy, Jörg weaves countless voices and aspects together to demonstrate the rich texture of his pluralized vision. The impact of these new reasonings on the pressing challenges of our time can be seen in the sheer scope of these elements, from the role of artificial intelligence to the post-truth society and how science can shape our own self-understanding.

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