Eco-Thoughts - Conversations with a Polluted Mind

This book offers "eco-words" and "eco-thoughts" as itsheds light on the traps that our minds construct for ourselves, that we so often fall into whether we mean to or not. It examines the erroneous paths that we sometimes meander down while we are thinking in our everyday lives, in order to help us to identify and avoid them.

List of contents

1. Architectures of the Mind and Mindscapes
2. Forms of Symbolic Pollution
3. Visual Pollution
4. Soundscapes and the Ecology of Sounds
5. The Ecological Mind
6. Inter-Speciesism, Anti-Speciesism and Other Beliefs
Postscript: En route. Diary of everyday happiness

About the author

Anna Lisa Tota is Vice-Rector of the University Roma Tre in Rome, Italy, and Full Professor of Sociology of Communication and Culture at the Department of Philosophy, Communication, and Performing Arts in the same university. Among her publications are the Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies (edited with Trever Hagen, 2016) and Eco-Words: The Ecology of Conversation (2024).

Summary

This book offers "eco-words" and "eco-thoughts" as itsheds light on the traps that our minds construct for ourselves, that we so often fall into whether we mean to or not. It examines the erroneous paths that we sometimes meander down while we are thinking in our everyday lives, in order to help us to identify and avoid them.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Lisa Tota, Tota Anna Lisa
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032777375
• ISBN: 978-1-03-277737-5
• No. of pages: 198
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Sociology, Philosophy of Language, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general