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This volume presents new philosophical perspectives on environmental emotions. It explores the motivating nature of emotions such as anger, grief, and hope in relation to the current climate crisis.
List of contents
Foreword "Adversity is the first path to truth": How climate grief could be the making of us
Rupert Read The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions: Introduction
Ond¿ej Beran, Laura Candiotto, Niklas Forsberg, Antony Fredriksson, and David Rozen Part I: Language, Concepts, and Sense-making 1. Clarifying Climate Emotions via their Foci
David Rozen, Petr Vaškovic and Gabriela Vi¿anová 2. Conceptual Change in Emotional Contexts
Niklas Forsberg 3. Beyond "Grievability": Toward an Affective and Moral Lexicon for the Anthropocene
Maria Antonaccio 4. How to Speak of Nonhuman Ghosts: Language, Moral Beauty, and Animal Ethical Mourning
Elisa Aaltola Part II: Living in Community 5. Hope and Agency in a Time of Environmental Upheaval
Nora Hämäläinen 6. Hope and Realizing the Potentials of the Past
Kenneth Shockley 7. Natality, Parenthood, and Climate Hope
Tom Whyman 8. No Hope Without Hope for All: Arendt and Hope as a Communal Endeavour Rooted in the Shared Condition of Natality
Olena Kushyna 9. Putting Grief to Work: Planting Hope for Rainforest-Futures as a Multispecies Care
Ella Chiara Vallelonga 10. Friendship and Politics
Ond¿ej Beran Part III: The Displaced Self 11. Loving a Place that is Dying
Laura Candiotto 12. Kinship and Relationality as Foundations for Environmental Emotions
Antony Fredriksson 13. In Defence of Despair about Climate Breakdown
Anh-Quân Nguyen 14. Ecological Grief, Ambiguous Loss, and the Slow Violence of Extraction
Anna Gleizer and Pablo Fernandez Velasco Afterword 15. Environmental Grief, Despair, and Meaning: Concluding Discussion
Panu Pihkala
About the author
Ond¿ej Beran is Associate Professor of Philosophy and one of the Heads of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. His recent publications include
Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking (Routledge 2021).
Laura Candiotto is Associate Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. Among her recent publications is "What I cannot do without you" (
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2022).
Niklas Forsberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy and one of the Heads of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. His recent publications include
Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary (Routledge, 2021).
Antony Fredriksson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and one of the Heads of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. His recent publications include
A Phenomenology of Attention and the Unfamiliar (Palgrave, 2022).
David Rozen is a PhD candidate and an external Lecturer of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Pardubice. Among his recent publications is "Attitudes Toward Nature as a Key for Understanding the Current Lack of Adequate Environmental Behavior: Overstepping the Dialectic of Extractivism and Romanticism" (
Ethics, Policy & Environment, 2024).
Summary
This volume presents new philosophical perspectives on environmental emotions. It explores the motivating nature of emotions such as anger, grief, and hope in relation to the current climate crisis.
