Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil - Decreation for the Anthropocene

This book places the philosophy of Simone Weil into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns in the Anthropocene. For Simone Weil scholars and academics, as well as students and researchers interested in environmental ethics in departments of comparative literature, theory and criticism, philosophy, and environmental studies.

List of contents

Introduction: Finding Simone Weil in an Ecological Void Part 1. Growing Roots: A Reading of Simone Weil 1. Mapping an Ethics of Decreation 2. The Faculties 3. The Power of Force 4. Attention and Mediation 5. Decreation and Action Part 2. Plato and the Environment 6. Contemporary Dualistic Ecological Readings of Plato’s Phaedrus 7. A Nondual Reading of Plato via Metaxu Part 3. Decreation for the Anthropocene 8. Weil and Anthropocene Ethics 9. A Weilian-Inspired Ecological Ethics 10. Action in the Anthropocene

About the author

Kathryn Lawson is a lecturer of philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is co-editor of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations (2024) and Breached Horizons: The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion (2017) and author of a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters.

Summary

This book places the philosophy of Simone Weil into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns in the Anthropocene. For Simone Weil scholars and academics, as well as students and researchers interested in environmental ethics in departments of comparative literature, theory and criticism, philosophy, and environmental studies.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Lawson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032583297
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258329-7
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability; Routledge Environmental Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Environmentalist thought and ideology, PHILOSOPHY / Environmental