On the Ground

Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics

O'neil Van Horn

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Fordham University Press
05 December 2023

Philosophy of religion; Religious ethics; Christianity; Conservation of the environment

"A bold, theoretical, and pragmatic book that looks to soil as a symbol for constructive possibilities for hope and planetary political action in the Anthropocene.

Climate change is here. Its ravaging effects will upend our interconnected ecosystems, and yet those effects will play out disproportionately among the planet's nearly 8 billion human inhabitants. On the Ground explores how one might account for the many paradoxical tensions posed by the Anthropocene: tensions between planetarity and particularity, connectivity and contextuality, entanglement and exclusion. Using the philosophical and theological idea of ""ground,"" Van Horn argues that ground-when read as earth-ground, as soil-offers a symbol for conceiving of the effects of climate change as collective and yet located, as communal and yet differential. In so doing, he offers critical interventions on theorizations of hope and political action amid the crises of climate change.

Drawing on soil science, theopoetics, feminist ethics, poststructuralism, process philosophy, and more, On the Ground asks: in the face of global climate catastrophe, how might one theorize this calamitous experience as shared and yet particular, as interconnected and yet contextual? Might there be a way to conceptualize our interconnected experiences without erasing critical constitutive differences, particularly of social and ecological location? How might these conceptual interventions catalyze pluralistic, anti-racist planetary politics amid the Anthropocene? In short, the book addresses the queries: What philosophical and theological concepts can soil create? How might soil inspire and help reimagine forms of planetary politics in the midst of climate change? On the Ground thus roots us in a robust theoretical symbol in the hopes of producing and proliferating intersectional responses to climate change."

By: O'neil Van Horn
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9781531505561
ISBN 10: 1531505562
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 05 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

O'neil Van Horn is Assistant Professor of Theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds a PhD in Philosophical and Theological Studies from Drew University and is a former Louisville Scholar (2021–2023). He has published various works in the fields of theopoetics, constructive ecotheology, and environmental philosophy.

Reviews for On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics

While life on Earth feels increasingly groundless and uprooted, O'neil Van Horn gives us grounds for hope. Philosophical and theological grounds for thinking, feeling, and acting are brought down to Earth, to the grounds of soils and seeds. Creatively composing and composting the varieties of terrestrial existence, these grounds expose a dark hope, opening new poetic and political possibilities amid ongoing uncertainty, suffering, and lament.---Sam Mickey, Research Associate, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology