Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era

Lenart Škof, Sashinungla, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

X, 194 Seiten

2025
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-42121-1 (ISBN)

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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 usand 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.

Lenart Skof is professor of philosophy and religious studies and is among the leading international scholars in the field of respiratory-elemental thinking. His main research interests lie in ethics, philosophical theology, comparative religion with intercultural philosophy, and feminist philosophy. His most recent books include God in Post-Christianity: An Elemental Philosophical Theology (SUNY Press, 2024), Antigone's Sisters: On the Matrix of Love (SUNY Press, 2021), Atmospheres of Breathing, ed. by L. Skof and P. Berndtson (SUNY Press, 2018), Ethik des Atems (Freiburg: Herder/Karl Alber, 2017) and Breath of Proximity: Intersubjectivity, Ethics, and Peace (Springer, 2015).

Sashinungla is professor of philosophy at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Her main research interests are ethics, feminist philosophy, environmental philosophy, and indigenous philosophy. Her books include Tradition and Modernity: Essays on Women of India (coedited; Suryodaya Books, 2015), Environment Preservation: A Philosophical Critique (Decent Books, 2005), and Ethics and Culture: Some Indian Reflections (co-edited; Decent Books, 2010). Her current research projects focus on tribal philosophy, elemental and embodied cross-cultural philosophy of nature, and social and political ethics.

Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir is professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland and former Erkko professor at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She is an internationally known Nietzsche-scholar and a leading scholar in feminist philosophy with a special emphasis on philosophy of embodiment, nature and the environment. Among her recent publications are Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning (Routledge 2024, ed. with D. Schoeller and G. Walkerden) and Methodological Reflections on Women´s Contribution and Influence in the History of Philosophy (Springer 2020, ed. with R. Hagengruber).

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
Zusatzinfo	X, 194 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Schlagworte	atmospheres of breathing • Cognitive and Affective Paradigms in Environmental Thinking • Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas • Elemental Philosophy • Elemental Philosophy of Religion • Embodied Critical Thinking • Environmental Ethics • Environmental Humanities • environmental philosophy • Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Buddhism • First Nations Indigenous Ontology • Paradigm Shift and Environmental Philosophy • philosophy of nature • Rationality and Tribal Thought • Responses to Climate Change in Humanities • through vegetal being
ISBN-10	3-031-42121-3 / 3031421213
ISBN-13	978-3-031-42121-1 / 9783031421211
Zustand	Neuware