Creature Discomforts: Levinas’s Interpretation of Creation Ex Nihilo

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Human Place in the Natural World 1
5. Creation, Creativity, and Creatureliness: The Wisdom of Finite Existence 23
6. Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality 37
7. The Art of Creaturely Life: A Question of Human Propriety 51
8. Face of Nature, Gift of Creation: Thoughts Toward a Phenomenology of Ktisis 74
9. Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien 100
10. Creature Discomforts: Levinas’s Interpretation of Creation Ex Nihilo 113
11. Refl ections from Thoreau’s Concord 128
12. Creation and the Glory of Creatures 143
13. Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburbs 159
14. Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World: Topographies of the Eco-Divine 173
15. Notes 185
16. List of Contributors 233
17. Index 237
18. Forrest Clingerman and Brian Treanor, series editors 243