Whitney Bauman, Kevin O'Brien

Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty (eBook, PDF)

Wrestling with Wicked Problems

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a multidisciplinary (theology, philosophy, and sociology) environmental approach to ethics in response to the contemporary challenge of climate change caused by globalized economics and consumption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000487565
• Artikelnr.: 57405212

Autorenporträt

Whitney A. Bauman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University, USA. His books include Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic (2014) and, with Kevin O'Brien and Richard Bohannon, Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology, 2nd Revised Edition (2018).

Kevin J. O'Brien is Professor of Religion and Dean of Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University, USA. His books include The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists and, with Whitney Bauman and Richard Bohannon, Inherited Land: The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The problem with knowing the answer
Chapter 1
Ethical action in an ambiguous world
Chapter 2
The depths of ambiguity: Ethical pluralism and wonder in Marjory Stoneman
Douglas and Rachel Carson
Chapter 3
Good and evil without progress
Chapter 4
Complexity in action: The challenging uncertainties of Martin Luther King,
Jr. and Malcolm X
Chapter 5
Loving the world without certainty
Chapter 6
The dangers of building without ambiguity: Spirituality and utopianism in
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chapter 7
Concluding ideas on ambiguous time
Chapter 8
Concluding practices for an uncertain stand: Fracking, Protesting, and
engineering the climate