Steven E. Alford

Pathways to a New Environmental Ethic

Decentering the Human Subject

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We live under the threat of humanity's self-inflicted extinction. While technological approaches to climate mitigation are admirable, our ecological crisis results ultimately from an inherited, unexamined concept of selfhood and a misconceived view of nature. The received idea that our self exists inside our skull engenders an assumption that nature is "out there," with devastating results. This book explores three new ways of thinking about the interrelation of ourselves and "nature": Merleau-Ponty's notion of embodiment, the connection between enactivism and affordances, and object-oriented ontology. These approaches to selfhood reorder our moral obligations: What are our responsibilities to ourselves, our children, and nature itself? An embodied ethic based on empathy can transcend cultural biases and offer a new way of confronting climate change. To meet environmental challenges, we need to change our minds about our minds.

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Produktdetails

• Ethics and Culture
• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781476692944
• ISBN-10: 1476692947
• Artikelnr.: 71594905

Autorenporträt

Steven E. Alford has taught literature, philosophy and film at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has published essays on Paul Auster, Lawrence Durrell, Gavin Maxwell, and Peter Ackroyd, as well as books and articles on European Romanticism, motorcycle culture, and film. He lives in Bend, Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part One-The Decentered Self 1.
Merleau-Ponty and Embodied Consciousness 2.
Enactivism and Affordance 3.
Object Oriented Ontology Part Two-Ethics at the Intersection 4.
Ethics and Empathy 5.
OOO and Panpsychism 6.
Temporality, Generations, and the Social Imaginary 7.
Conclusion Appendix A. "Nature": A Typology Appendix B. A Brief Glossary of Terms Chapter Notes Bibliography Index