Pathways to a new environmental ethic : decentering the human subject / Steven E. Alford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alford, Steven E., 1950- author.

Series:

Ethics and culture (Jefferson, N.C.)

Ethics and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Existential ethics.

Nature--Moral and ethical aspects.

Nature.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Environmental ethics.

Physical Description:

ix, 200 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024]

Summary:

"We live under the threat of humanity's self-inflicted extinction. While technological approaches to climate mitigation are admirable, our ecological crisis results ultimately from an inherited, unexamined concept of selfhood and a misconceived view of nature. The received idea that our self exists inside our skull engenders an assumption that nature is "out there," with devastating results. This book explores three new ways of thinking about the interrelation of ourselves and "nature": Merleau-Ponty's notion of embodiment, the connection between enactivism and affordances, and object-oriented ontology. These approaches to selfhood reorder our moral obligations: What are our responsibilities to ourselves, our children, and nature itself? An embodied ethic based on empathy can transcend cultural biases and offer a new way of confronting climate change. To meet environmental challenges, we need to change our minds about our minds"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Part One. The Decentered Self

Ư1. Merleau-Ponty and Embodied Consciousness

2. Enactivism and Affordance

3. Object Oriented Ontology

Part Two. Ethics at the Intersection

4. Ethics and Empathy

5. OOO and Panpsychism

6. Temporality, Generations, and the Social Imaginary

7. Conclusion

Appendix A. "Nature": A Typology

Appendix B. A Brief Glossary of Terms

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781476692944

1476692947

OCLC:

1443718181

Publisher Number:

99996899478