Who Invented the Earth? A Guide to Geophilosophy from Deleuze and Derrida to Agamben and Latour

The Earth is traditionally in the focus of the natural sciences: its depths, rock formations, the movement of tectonic plates, its position in the universe are studied. However, a different - philosophical - history of ideas is also built around... the Earth. A guide to it - the book "Who Invented the Earth?" - is offered by Maximilian Neapolitan. Familiarizing oneself with the key concepts of geophilosophy - groundlessness, the metaphysics of landscape by Podoroga, dark ecology and hyperobjects by Morton, the chtulucene by Haraway, Gaia theory by Lovelock and Latour, Agamben's Chthonia, and Schmitt's Political Earth - will provide an understanding that the Earth is not just a backdrop for human life nor nature to retreat to on weekends. The Earth is a fundamental theme of philosophy and our everyday life.