The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions

Grief, Hope, and Beyond
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-79093-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 641 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

This volume presents new philosophical perspectives on environmental emotions. It explores the motivating nature of emotions such as anger, grief, and hope in relation to the current climate crisis.

Many of our emotional responses to the climate crisis take a distressed form like anxiety, despair, or grief. However, these emotions almost always coexist with hope, a drive toward action, or a strengthened sense of relationality and belonging. This book explores the different levels at which these tensions take place. Part I discusses the conceptual and linguistic notions we use to make sense of our ecological predicament. Part II looks at the embedded dimension of our emotions: how we feel about the climate crisis as members of our communities and how our emotions are interconnected with what we do and how we work in and for our communities. Several chapters in this section explicitly discuss hope. Finally, Part III has a phenomenological and existential focus: it explores the nature of the rootedness and how it shapes our emotional experiences during the climate crisis.

The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions will appeal to scholars and graduate students working in environmental philosophy, philosophy of emotion, and environmental psychology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beran, Ond¿ej

Beran, Ondrej

Candiotto, Laura

Forsberg, Niklas

Fredriksson, Antony

Rozen, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword  “Adversity is the first path to truth": How climate grief could be the making of us Rupert Read  The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions: Introduction Ondrej Beran, Laura Candiotto, Niklas Forsberg, Antony Fredriksson, and David Rozen  Part I: Language, Concepts, and Sense-making  1. Clarifying Climate Emotions via their Foci David Rozen, Petr Vaškovic and Gabriela Vicanová  2. Conceptual Change in Emotional Contexts Niklas Forsberg  3. Beyond "Grievability": Toward an Affective and Moral Lexicon for the Anthropocene Maria Antonaccio  4. How to Speak of Nonhuman Ghosts: Language, Moral Beauty, and Animal Ethical Mourning Elisa Aaltola  Part II: Living in Community  5. Hope and Agency in a Time of Environmental Upheaval Nora Hämäläinen  6. Hope and Realizing the Potentials of the Past Kenneth Shockley  7. Natality, Parenthood, and Climate Hope Tom Whyman  8. No Hope Without Hope for All: Arendt and Hope as a Communal Endeavour Rooted in the Shared Condition of Natality Olena Kushyna  9. Putting Grief to Work: Planting Hope for Rainforest-Futures as a Multispecies Care Ella Chiara Vallelonga  10. Friendship and Politics Ondrej Beran  Part III: The Displaced Self  11. Loving a Place that is Dying Laura Candiotto  12. Kinship and Relationality as Foundations for Environmental Emotions Antony Fredriksson  13. In Defence of Despair about Climate Breakdown Anh-Quân Nguyen  14. Ecological Grief, Ambiguous Loss, and the Slow Violence of Extraction Anna Gleizer and Pablo Fernandez Velasco  Afterword  15. Environmental Grief, Despair, and Meaning: Concluding Discussion Panu Pihkala

Über Autor(innen)

Ondrej Beran is Associate Professor of Philosophy and one of the Heads of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. His recent publications include Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking (Routledge 2021).

Laura Candiotto is Associate Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. Among her recent publications is “What I cannot do without you” (Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2022).

Niklas Forsberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy and one of the Heads of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. His recent publications include Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary (Routledge, 2021).

Antony Fredriksson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and one of the Heads of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. His recent publications include A Phenomenology of Attention and the Unfamiliar (Palgrave, 2022).

David Rozen is a PhD candidate and an external Lecturer of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Pardubice. Among his recent publications is “Attitudes Toward Nature as a Key for Understanding the Current Lack of Adequate Environmental Behavior: Overstepping the Dialectic of Extractivism and Romanticism” (Ethics, Policy & Environment, 2024).