Overview
- Considers the meaning and purpose of philosophy as a way of responding to the ecological emergency
- Asks what is the practice of philosophy in an ecological crisis
- Encompasses our social and political reactions to the crisis
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Philosophy Demonstrates Value
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An Emerging Search for Common Ground
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Coming Back to Practice
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Perspectives from the More-Than-Human World
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Breaking Through Cultural Boundaries
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Breaking Through Philosophical Boundaries
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About this book
This book argues that philosophy is as practical as plumbing and what we need right now is what philosophers can offer as philosophers to help us all, our species, and beyond, through this ecological emergency, this climate change, this anthropocene.
This book is about the meaning and purpose of philosophy as a way of, a practice of, responding to the ecological emergency, which includes climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, habitat destruction, and all the associated impacts that fragment, and threaten to create collapse, among the systems that created and sustain us. There are the related economic and social impacts, the fragmentation of communities and political ideologies through attitude polarisation, and the increasing threats to systems by those who seek to promote further exploitation at the expense of attempts to regain some system of cooperation and an attitude of compassion which is at the heart of our survival strategies as a species.
Philosophy has always sought to address questions related both to our place in the universe, and to how to live, given our understanding of our place. Those of us committed to a philosophical life have used a range of metaphors and narratives to enlighten, and to exhort to action, those who would seek to understand what to do, how, and why. Philosophy has played a key role in helping us as a species to respond to the ecological emergency. What, then, is the practice of philosophy, given that we’re in an ecological emergency?
This question is the thread, and it forms the framework for the dialogue that runs through the book.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency
Book Subtitle: An Exploration of Urgent Matters
Editors: Lucy Weir
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94391-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94390-5Published: 31 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94393-6Published: 01 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94391-2Published: 30 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 279
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Nature, Ethics, Ecology