Philosophy and the climate crisis : how the past can save the present /

This book explores how the history of philosophy can orient us to the new reality brought on by the climate crisis. If we understand the climate crisis as a deeply existential one, it can help to examine the way past philosophers responded to similar crises in their times. This book explores five pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williston, Byron, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2021]
Series:Routledge environmental ethics
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Disorientation. In praise of bewilderment
  • Foundationsb: God and nature
  • The shape of our crisis
  • Part II: Five intellectual innovations. Plato : epistocracy
  • Augustine : love
  • Descartes : the technosphere
  • Spinoza : diversity in unity
  • Hegel : rights
  • Part III: Reorientation. Anthropocene monism.