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Record Nr.

UNINA9910855389803321

Titolo

Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era / / edited by Lenart Škof, Sashinungla, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-42119-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 194 p. 2 illus.)

Collana

Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, , 2211-1115 ; ; 42

Disciplina

113

Soggetti

Philosophy of nature

Religion and culture

Religion - Philosophy

Human ecology - Study and teaching

Bioclimatology

Cognitive science

Philosophy of Nature

Cross-cultural Studies

Philosophy of Religion

Environmental Studies

Climate Change Ecology

Cognitive Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1.Aboriginal Indian Elemental Ontology -- Chapter 2.Closing the Subject-Object Rift Through Aboriginal Australian Elemental and Embodied Philosophy -- Chapter 3.Elements of Slovenian Indigenous Religion -- Chapter 4. The Glacier and Me – Understanding the Human Being as Embodied and Elemental -- Chapter 5.The Life in Black Lives Matter -- Chapter 6.The Gravity of Our Situation: On Acrophobia and Eco-Paralysis -- Chapter 7. Vegetal Environmental Pedagogy -- Chapter 8.Environmental Responsiveness in Conceptual Thinking -- Chapter 9.Elements of Embodied Critical Thinking -- Chapter 10.Methodologies of Embodied-Elemental Thinking in Ethics of Nature.



Sommario/riassunto

This collection responds to widespread, complex, and current environmental challenges by presenting eleven original essays on a new elemental-embodied approach in environmental humanities. This approach has a special focus on elemental and indigenous philosophies as well as localized experiences of terrestrial forces: from earthquakes and eruptions to pandemics and natural disasters. Representing a shift in modern Western scientific and disembodied thinking of nature, this edited book approaches the question of relationality and intertwining of human and natural being by utilizing the elemental-embodied methodologies within philosophy of embodiment and nature. Supported by research in cognitive sciences, the contributors represent the experiential and affective turn within research into human cognition. As embodied, the human being is embedded and interacting with all there is. The aim of this edited volume is to indicate new paths toward regaining our access to natural being within us and thus toward reconnecting with the natural environment and the things and beings around us in a new, environmentally enhanced way. It appeals to researchers and students working in many fields, predominantly in philosophy, as well as religious and environmental studies.