Earth emotions : new words for a new world / Glenn A. Albrecht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albrecht, Glenn A., author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Health aspects.

Emotions.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Environmentalism--Philosophy.

Environmentalism.

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, pages.)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2019.

Summary:

'Earth Emotions' is an invitation to the reader to participate in the emergent global drama between the emotionally charged forces of creation and destruction. Both sets of emotions are needed for the survival and the flourishing of the species, however, we live in an epoch where the forces of destruction are overwhelming positive or creative emotions. The name for this period of human dominance is the 'Anthropocene'. The book promotes an antidote to the Anthropocene in the form of the 'Symbiocene', a future era where positive earth emotions will flourish. Through these two master concepts, both types of emotions are systematically examined in the context of nature and life. Starting with a recently defined negative earth emotion, 'solastalgia', the reader is taken on a psycho-terratic (psyche-earth) journey through all of the earth emotions and feelings in use in the public and academic literature. The book culminates in the affirmation of positive emotional relationships to the Earth for current and future generations. As a relentlessly optimistic manifesto for living in the future, this book addresses the emotional, cultural, ethical, political, spiritual and practical aspects of positive earth emotions and the defeat of those that are destructive of people and the planet.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1. A sumbiography. a summation of my green past

Chapter 2. Solastalgia. the homesickness you have at home

Chapter 3. The psychoterratic in the Anthropocene. negative earth emotions

Chapter 4. The psychoterratic in the Symbiocene. positive earth emotions

Chapter 5. Gaia and the Ghedeist. secular spirituality

Chapter 6. Generation Symbiocene: Creating the new world

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501715242 (electronic book)