An Ontology of Trash

Released on by Greg Kennedy
preview-18

  • An Ontology of Trash Book Detail

  • Author : Greg Kennedy
  • Release Date : 2012-02-01
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Pages : 240
  • ISBN 13 : 0791480585
  • File Size : 22,22 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

An Ontology of Trash by Greg Kennedy PDF Summary

Book Description: Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill? In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy inquires into the meaning of disposable objects and explores the nature of our prodigious refuse. He takes trash as a real ontological problem resulting from our unsettled relation to nature. The metaphysical drive from immanence to transcendence leaves us in an alien world of objects drained of meaningful physical presence. Consequently, they become interpreted as beings that somehow essentially lack being, and exist in our technological world only to disappear. Kennedy explores this problematic nature and looks for possibilities of salutary change.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own An Ontology of Trash books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

An Ontology of Trash

An Ontology of Trash

File Size : 40,40 MB
Total View : 825 Views
DOWNLOAD

Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it a

The Far Northeast

The Far Northeast

File Size : 73,73 MB
Total View : 8638 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact is the first volume to synthesize archaeological research from across Atlantic Canada and northern New England for the per

Foreign Policy of Colonial India

Foreign Policy of Colonial India

File Size : 35,35 MB
Total View : 2677 Views
DOWNLOAD

The foreign policy of a colonial country is very different from that of a sovereign country. Two features of the foreign policy of colonial India were: one, tha

Railways and International Politics

Railways and International Politics

File Size : 98,98 MB
Total View : 1735 Views
DOWNLOAD

This new study brings together leading experts to show how the modern world began with the coming of the railway. They clearly explain why it had a greater impa