Beyond Elemental Loss : Shifting Constellations of Water, Fire, Air, and Earth / Marjolein Oele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oele, Marjolein, author.

Series:

SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics.

SUNY Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Environmental psychology.

Four elements (Philosophy).

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Loss (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2025]

Summary:

Offers an important and innovative contribution to environmental philosophy by investigating loss in times of anthropogenic climate change through the elements of water, fire, air, and earth.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Formulating a Theory of Infinitesimal Loss Suited for Times of Climate Change

Articulating an Epistemology That Can Follow the Contours of Change Undergirding Ambiguous Elemental Loss

How the Elemental as a Social-Ecological Constellation Theoretically Deconstructed for the Present Helps Us to Think Through Forming an Epistemology of Ecological Change and Loss

The Presocratic Elemental: Perceptive Crystallization Points Amenable to Interscalar Connections

With and Beyond Sallis: Reengineering the Choric Space of Appearance to Accommodate Material-Historical Engagement

Reimagining Sloterdijk's Spheres and Irigaray's Elements to Theorize Embodied Participation in Elemental Constellations

Four Elements and Portals into Elemental Loss

Chapter 1. Water - Living and Speaking Oceanic Loss: On Extinction, Migration, and Language(s)

Extinction and Loss of World and Home

From a Narrative of Death and Extinction toward a Narrative of Revitalization

On the Way to Aquatic Speech Acts: Ingersoll and Glissant

Ingersoll and Aquatic Language

Glissant and the Language of the Sea

Languages of the Sea

Concluding Thoughts

Chapter 2. Fire - Pyrogenic Creation and Destruction: Contemplating the Meaning of Fire, Affect, and Loss in the Pyrocene

The Myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus and the Duplicity of Prometheus's Gifts

The Gift of Fire and the Mutual Evolution of Fire and Humanity

Affect, Fire, and the Future

Native American Practices, Redwoods, and a New Pyrophytic Affective Regime

Chapter 3. Air - The Breath of Decaying Constellations: A Phenomenology of Loss, Illness, Allergies, and Bad Air

The Revelation of Illness as Portal into the Swinging Pendulum between Home and Homelessness.

The Constitution and Generation of Air: Peter Sloterdijk and the Importance of Reenvisioning Air as the Potential Space of Illness

Anaximenes on Air: Reenvisioning the Generation and Dynamics of Air

The Modalities of the Medium of Air: Mitman, Berlant, and Nietzsche on the Generation and Distribution of Bad Air

Chapter 4. Earth - Silent Tremors: Earthquakes and the Question of Balance and (Dis)Orientation

Narrating the Earth as the Origin of Stability and Creation: Hesiod's and Homer's Perspective

Hesiod and Homer on the Stabilizing Origin of Earth and the Divine Interruptions of Earthquakes

Accounting for Earth and the Causes of Earthquakes in Aristotle: Rethinking the Movements of Earth in Analogy with Our Own Human Bodies

Interpreting the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755: Voltaire, Kant, and the Question of Internal (Dis)Orientation

Voltaire on Earth and Earthquakes: Shaking Off Divine Purposiveness

Elevating the Human Mind: Kant's Reorientation of the Human Ground in the Wake of the Lisbon Earthquake

From Instability to (Dis)Orientation and Human Agency: The Lessons to be Learned from Voltaire and Kant

Rethinking Human Orientation beyond the Anthropocene: Plate Tectonics, Social Inequities, Climate Change, and Fracking

The Earth Sciences and Plate Tectonics: The Slow Gathering of Evidence to Prove Instability and Moving Plates

Complicating Plate Tectonics: Dysfunctional Building Regimes, Climate Change, and Fracking

Shifts in the Elemental and the Search for an Ethics of Balance

Chapter 5. Elemental Trust - Transforming Elemental Loss into Elemental Change

Defining Trust with Bernstein, Godfrey, and Hegel

Common Definitions and Defining Trust with Bernstein

Godfrey on the Common Core of Trust, and Trust as Openness to Benevolence.

Hegel and Trust Invested in the State

My Definition of Trust

Diagnosing the Loss of Trust in Modern Society

Marx and Stiegler on Economic Systems and the Fraying of Trust

From Loss of Trust to Gaining Trust: Building Trust through Collective Action and Embodied Affect-Knowledges

Rebuilding Trust Through Elinor Ostrom's Model of Collective Action

Collective Action, the Commons, and Design Principles

Ways of Scaling Up Trust from the Local to the Global: Ostrom's Guidance

Summarizing: Redefining Trust with Ostrom

Shortcomings of Ostrom's Model

Rebuilding Trust with Michel Serres: Engaging the Expressive Content of the Elemental

Extending Out from Serres: Wildcat on Indigenous Forms of Familial Trust

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798855801699

OCLC:

1511107812