Environmental Affectivity : Aesthetics of Inhabiting /

Following Spinoza's lead, this book imagines an embodied environmental ethics based on the relations between sentient beings and sustained by affections, sensibility, the senses, and contact. Engaging embodied, cognitive, phenomenological, and psychoanalytic aspects of affectivity, Omar Felipe...

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Giraldo, Omar Felipe, Toro, Ingrid Fernanda
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
Following Spinoza's lead, this book imagines an embodied environmental ethics based on the relations between sentient beings and sustained by affections, sensibility, the senses, and contact. Engaging embodied, cognitive, phenomenological, and psychoanalytic aspects of affectivity, Omar Felipe Giraldo and Ingrid Fernanda Toro help us understand how places inhabit us, and therefore, how places transformed lovingly have the immense capacity to modify the body, to redirect desire, to clarify our sensibility - in order to create an affectivity in a direction opposite to the regime imposed by this ecocidal society. Beginning with a discussion of environmental epistemology on ontological monisms and dualisms, Giraldo and Toro question theoretical approaches that correctly challenge Cartesian dichotomies but which they claim continue to examine the environmental problem from two angles: culture versus nature, the human versus the non-human. The environmental crisis is more than a technological or economic problem. In this book, Giraldo and Toro argue that it is a threat to survival inscribed in the deepest foundations of our body, in the intimacy of our skin, in the intensity and tone of our affections, in our desires, in our perceptions, and in our sensory-motor capacities.
Umfang:
1 online resource (177 pages)
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Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781350345133
135034513X
9781350345119
1350345113
Schlagworte:
Environmental ethics.
Environmentalism > Philosophy
Environmentalist thought & ideology
Social & political philosophy
Social impact of environmental issues
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