Kinship and relationality as foundations for environmental emotions
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<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003490487-16" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003490487-16</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Kinship and relationality as foundations for environmental emotions
Original language description
As humans we do not stand above nature. What we call nature, and its agency is not external to our life-form. However, this relationality is hardly detectable since it requires a certain acknowledgement of aspects of our experiential life that are foundational to such an extent that they easily go unnoticed. This is why it is important for environmental philosophy to be able to articulate what it means to claim that we are kin with the nonhuman nature.In this chapter I investigate this notion of kinship through a reading of classical phenomenology, and current environmental ethics. In his lectures Merleau-Ponty writes about the concept of nature, “It is our soil [sol]-not what is in front of us, facing us, but rather, that which carries us.” Building on this idea, Robert Kirkman writes: “I perceive the world only because the flesh of my body intertwines with the flesh of the world”. In this sense, kinship between human and nonhuman is a precondition for perception and affectivity.I propose that kinship, as a concept, gives us a more robust understanding of the origins of our environmental emotions. When we understand that our affectivity and sense-making is co-constituted by a non-human agency, the potential loss and destruction of environments triggers a certain existential dread in us. We come to understand that the environmental crisis, not only entails a certain loss of natural objects and biological life. Perhaps more critically, it threatens the very relationality and kinship that we have with nature—that which carries our emotions and meanings.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-15446S" target="_blank" >GA22-15446S: "ECEGADMAT". Varieties of Feeling Bad about Climate and Other Things</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions Grief, Hope, and Beyond
ISBN
978-1-03-279093-0
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
230-245
Number of pages of the book
336
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
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