Dr G.E. Kuperus (Gerard)

Laudato Si' Instituut - Laudato Si' Institute
Laudato Si' Instituut - Laudato Si’

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gerard.kuperus@ru.nl
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Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Gerard Kuperus is researcher Integral Ecology in the Dutch Context at the Laudato Si' Institute. His background is Continental Philosophy and comparative philosophy (specifically Zen Buddhism and Indigenous thinking). His most recent monograph is Ecopolitics, Redefining the Polis (SUNY, 2023) in he analyses non-human political structures.
At the Laudato Si' Institute he works on a project on water in the Netherlands, focusing on how humans transition from masters and stewards to collaborators with the forces of nature.

Publications

Key publications

Kuperus, G.E. (2024). Existentialism and Place: Reflections on the Significance of Place through Goldsworthy, Heidegger, and Nietzsche. In K. Aho, M. Altman & H Pedersen (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism (pp. 154-167). London: Routledge doi: 10.4324/9781003247791 Full text
Kuperus, G.E. (2023). Ecopolitics: Redefining the Polis (SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics). New York: State University of New York (SUNY) Press Full text
Kuperus, G.E. (2023, December 14). Ecopolitiek: Terugkeer naar de Aarde. Radboud Magazine (Duurzaamheidseditie), pp. 52-53. Full text
Kuperus, G.E. (2023). K(in)Vulnerability: Indigenous and Anthropocene Perspectives on Kin and Vulnerability. In E Boublil & S Ferrarello (Eds.), The Vulnerability of the Human World (Philosophy and Medicine (PHME), 148) (pp. 111-122). Berlin: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-41824-2 Full text
Kuperus, G.E. & Wehmeyer, A. (2023, November 30). Maak eens een boswandeling om het begrip integrale ecologie tot je te laten doordringen. de Volkskrant Full text
Kuperus, G.E. (2022). Existentialism and the Problems of Being. In R.G. Menzies & G.A. Dingle (Eds.), Existential Concerns and Cognitive Behavioral Procedures: An Integrative Approach to Mental Health (pp. 3-12). Berlin: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-06932-1_1 Full text
Kuperus, G.E. (2020). Our Common Home and the True Dharma Eye: Dōgen and Laudato Si in the Anthropocene. In S. Mickey (Ed.), Integrating Ecology and Justice in a Changing Climate (Lane Center Series, Vol. 9). San Francisco: University of San Francisco Full text
Kuperus, G.E., Hayes, J.M. & Treanor, B. (Ed.). (2020). Philosophy in the American West: A Geography of Thought (Routledge Environmental Ethics). London: Routledge Full text
Kuperus, G.E. (2019). A Contextualized Self: Re-Placing Ourselves Through Dōgen and Spinoza. Comparative and Continental Philosophy, 11 (3), 222-234. doi: 10.1080/17570638.2019.1679979 Full text
Kuperus, G.E. (2019). Listening to the Salmon: Latour’s Gaia, Aboriginal Thinking, and the Earth Community. Environmental Philosophy, 16 (2), 379-395. doi: 10.5840/envirophil2019101486 Full text
Kuperus, G.E. (2017). An Ecology of the Future: Nietzsche and Ecological Restoration. In G.E. Kuperus & M. Oele (Eds.), Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations (Contributions to Phenomenology, 92). Berlin: Springer Full text
Kuperus, G.E. (2016). Ecopolitical Homelessness: Defining Place in an Unsettled World. London: Routledge Full text
Kuperus, G.E. (2015). Heterogeneity and Injustice: A Sketch for a Lyotardian Approach to Animal Ethics. Trans-Humanities, 8 (3), 149-168. doi: 10.1353/trh.2015.0014 Full text

Dr G.E. Kuperus (Gerard)

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