Hosthood - The Human Self in Ecological Transition

Hosthood can be understood in the double meaning of an occurrence and the state produced by it. Based on the self-centeredness of man in modernity, the expansion of the responsibility and participation of individual selfhood in the ecological coherencess of life is discussed, which are given in physical, social, economic, cultural and political terms and are the topic of individual and shared concern in the immediate and wider environment. Hosthood is necessary.

Summary

Hosthood can be understood in the double meaning of an occurrence and the state produced by it. Based on the self-centeredness of man in modernity, the expansion of the responsibility and participation of individual selfhood in the ecological coherencess of life is discussed, which are given in physical, social, economic, cultural and political terms and are the topic of individual and shared concern in the immediate and wider environment. Hosthood is necessary.

Product details

• Authors: Wolf Rainer Wendt
• Publisher: Nomos
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.08.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9783756031597
• ISBN: 978-3-7560-3159-7
• No. of pages: 121
• Weight: 229 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Nachhaltigkeit, Ökologie, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Ecology, nachhaltige Entwicklung, Ökologische Krise, Mensch-Natur-Verhältnis, Human-nature relationship, Ecological Crisis, Menschliches Selbstverständnis, human selfhood