John P. Clark
Brief Biography

John Clark is Gregory F. Curtin Distinguished Professor in Humane Letters and the Professions at Loyola University New Orleans.  He is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, co-chairs the Department of Humanities, and teaches in the Loyola Environmental Studies Program. He also works with the New Orleans Lyceum Program as a facilitator for the Philocafé and other activities. He lives in the Carrollton neighborhood of uptown New Orleans and on Bayou LaTerre in Hancock County, Mississippi.

His books include Max Stirner's Egoism, The Philosophical Anarchism of William Godwin, The Anarchist Moment: Reflections on Culture, Nature and Power, Renewing the Earth: The Promise of Social Ecology (editor), Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (four editions; coeditor), Les Français des Etats-Unis: D'Hier a Aujourd'hui (coeditor), Elisée Reclus' Voyage to New Orleans (two editions; coeditor and cotranslator), and Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus, in addition to several other forthcoming works. He facilitated The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto and Other Writings and the forthcoming Down on St. Claude and Dumaine by Max Cafard. He has published over one hundred articles, primarily in the areas of ecological philosophy, environmental ethics and social and political theory. He is a regular columnist for the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism and is co-moderator of Research on Anarchism, a multilingual international discussion list and archives.

His research interests include dialectical thought, ecological philosophy, social ecology, environmental ethics, the anarchist and libertarian tradition, the philosophical imaginary, cultural critique, Buddhist philosophy, and Daoist thought. One of his major research projects is the development of a radically dialectical and ecological philosophy that explores the place of humanity and human experience within the unfolding of life, consciousness and value in the natural world.

He has been active for many years in the Green Movement, an international movement for ecological sustainability, world peace, social justice and grassroots democracy. He also works in the bioregional movement and in ecological forestry, and is reforesting and reintroducing native species on an 83-acre tract along Bayou LaTerre in Hancock County, Mississippi. He organized the organization Freeport Watch to monitor and work against ecocide and cultural genocide in West Papua (Western New Guinea) by Freeport McMoran, one of the world's largest mining corporations. He is a member of the International Campaign for Tibet and the Education Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World.

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