In nineteenthcentury Europe, differences among human bodies were understood to be matters of scientific classification. At the height of scientific acceptance, it was unthinkable that race or sex or diagnosis or indigence were invention. Today, however, differences among human bodies are understood as matters of social construction. The philosophy of social construction understands differences among humans to be matters of human imposition. Social constructionisms way of understanding the origin of differences among humans is so wellestablished as to have no currently viable alternatives, even among new materialists, social constructionisms most ardent critics. This book argues that new materialists and social constructionists share a distinction between the political and the ecological. Emily Anne Parker centers her argument on the philosophical concept of the polis, according to which there is one complete human form. It is this form that is to blame for our current political and ecological crisis. Political hierarchies and ecological crises are often considered to be two different problems for example, many speak of parallel problems, climate change and racial injustice. Parker argues that these are not parallel crises so much as one problem the polis. The philosophy of the polis asserts that there is one complete human body, and that body is meant to govern all other things. In that sense there are not two crises, but instead one concern to perceive the ways in which...

Binding: Hardback;320 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: HPS; Weight: 720 g; Dimensions: 162 x 244 x 25

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