Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation

177 Pages·2015·1.23 MB·English

by  Brianne Donaldson

Creaturely Cosmologies
Contemporary Whitehead Studies
SeriesEditors:
RolandFaber(ClaremontSchoolofTheologyClaremontGraduateUniversity)
BrianG.Henning(GonzagaUniversity)
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TitlesintheSeries
ButleronWhitehead:OntheOccasion,editedbyRolandFaber,MichaelHalewood,and
DeenaLin
FoundationsofRelationalRealism:ATopologicalApproachtoQuantumMe-chanicsand
thePhilosophyofNature,byMichaelEppersonandEliasZafiris
TheDivineManifold,byRolandFaber
CreaturelyCosmologies:WhyMetaphysicsMattersforAnimalandPlanetaryLiberation,
byBrianneDonaldson
Creaturely Cosmologies
Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and
Planetary Liberation
Brianne Donaldson
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Contents
Introduction:RealizingLife ix
1 FromFrameworksofRecognitiontoFrameworksofRelevance 1
2 TheStrangeCreaturesofProcessThought 29
3 DisruptiveSoulsinJainCosmology 55
4 Intra-ActionsI:PracticesofFreedominJainism 75
5 Intra-ActionsII:Practicesof“Reworlding”inProcessThought 93
6 ProvocativeLifeWithoutRobbery 113
Epilogue:FuturesoftheForgottenPast 129
Bibliography 135
Index 143
AbouttheAuthor 151
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