Abstract

Nourishment is a rich and ambitious text that situates human existence in its ecological materiality to broaden our ethical and political responsibilities beyond currently living individuals. With food procurement and nourishment as her focus, Pelluchon asks what do we owe our ancestors, what are our duties to future generations, and how are we to relate to nonhuman beings with whom we share the world.The objective of the book is “to propose a philosophy of existence that integrates what ecology teaches us about ‘living form,’ and to deduce from this a political organization connected to the elaboration of a new social pact”. The book is structured in two parts. The first part outlines “what ecology teaches us...