{"product_id":"for-love-of-matter-a-contemporary-panpsychism-9780791458082","title":"For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Freya Mathews\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Metaphysics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and original work in ecocosmology and metaphysics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn For Love of Matter Freya Mathews challenges basic assumptions of Western science, modern philosophy, and environmental philosophy, arguing that the environmental crisis is a symptom of a larger, metaphysical crisis. Western science rests on the premise that the world is an inert backdrop to human presence rather than a communicative presence in its own right, one capable of dialogical congress with us. Mathews explores the transformative effects of a substitution of the latter, panpsychist premise for the former, materialist one. She suggests that to exist in a dialogical modality is to enter an expanded realm of eros in which the self and world are mutually kindled into a larger, more incandescent state of realization. She argues that any adequate philosophical response to the so-called \"environmental crisis\" cannot be encompassed within the minor discipline of environmental philosophy but must instead address the full range of existential questions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47589492981911,"sku":"9780791458082","price":3523.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780791458082.webp?v=1774969004","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/for-love-of-matter-a-contemporary-panpsychism-9780791458082","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}