The Faithful and the Reasonable, Chapters on Ecological Foolishness

• Pubblicazione: Brno [Czech Republic], : Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství, 2021
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (263 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Psychology; Sociology; Human ecology; Environmental interactions; Religion and sociology; Ontology
• Persona (resp. second.): LibrováHana; PelikánVojtěch; Galčanová BatistaLucie; KalaLukáš; DibbleGraeme
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- I. Introduction: Creatures are dying, but we have our own worries -- II. Some interpretative keys -- II.1. Universal key:(UK) faithfulness, compassion, responsibility -- Faithfulness to the nest -- II.2. Ontological key:(OK) vita activa and vita contemplativa -- Mary has chosen what is better -- Vocabulary based on Hannah Arendt's terms -- II.3. Psychological key:(PK) defence mechanisms, locus of control -- Seminar Study A -- II.4. Motivational key:(MK) teleology, deontology, virtue ethics -- Seminar study B -- II.5. Theological key:(TK) Steward, shepherd, sibling -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prison letter to his parents -- III. Faithfulness to nature and faithfulness to ideas -- III.1. Environmental grief -- The poet retreats -- The astonishing zebra finch -- III.2. Rational ecopragmatists -- An attempt at creating steppe land -- III.3. Un/faithful nature conservationists -- What has worked, what to look out for, what has to be kept in mind -- III.4. Evil nature. The anti-nature subculture -- III.5. Faithfulness to words and ideas, the problem with comparisons -- Subcultural codes in an international 'green dating site' -- IV. The Colourful over the course of time -- IV.1. The initial report: the Colourful in 1992 -- IV.2. A report on the Colourful ten years on -- IV.3. The Colourful 23 years on -- A sociological heat study -- IV.4. The Children of the Colourful -- V. Conclusion: The palliative conservation of the swift -- VI. Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book follows the successful titles “The Colourful and the Green: Chapters on Voluntary Simplicity” and “The Half-Hearted and the Hesitant: Chapters on Ecological Luxury.” The author poses the question of why, at a time of continuing devastation of nature, people’s interest in nature conservation has been decreasing. Are the media to blame or is our numbness toward ecological problems rooted in our mental makeup that tends to supress unpleasant realities? The author also wants to find out why some people have remained faithful to nature. To get to the answers, she applies sociological, philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives. An unexpected question that may surprise some readers then becomes: Actually, why should we protect nature when it can take care of itself? It is not weak; it is strong and cruel. Librová’s students Vojtěch Pelikán, Lucie Galčanová, and Lukáš Kala interview the children of “the Colourful,” too: have they inherited their parents’ modest lifestyle?
• Altri titoli varianti: Faithful and the Reasonable
• Titolo autorizzato: The Faithful and the Reasonable, Chapters on Ecological Foolishness
• ISBN: 80-210-9992-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910557651803321
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