Anxiety, Hope and Meaning in Times of Ecological Crisis. An Existential-Phenomenological Perspective on Environmental Emotions

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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11240/24:10484051
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09728-3" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09728-3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09728-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10746-024-09728-3</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Anxiety, Hope and Meaning in Times of Ecological Crisis. An Existential-Phenomenological Perspective on Environmental Emotions
Original language description
Environmental anxiety is often thought of as a psychopathological condition. Our paper aims to challenge this narrow understanding by offering an existential-phenomenological interpretation of environmental anxiety that posits it as an existential attunement with a transformative potential, capable of opening the anxious individual to a hopeful and meaningful outlook on the future. In the first part of the paper, we provide a conceptual analysis of environmental anxiety, drawing on current interdisciplinary taxonomies of environmental emotions as well as on existential-phenomenological definitions of anxiety. We then proceed to define the two key existential characteristics of environmental anxiety, firstly (i) its ability to reframe the aesthetic perception of nature, and secondly (ii) its impact on the subjective constitution of meaning. In the second part of the paper, drawing on the work of Kierkegaard and contemporary ecopsychological and ecotheological thinkers, a distinction is made between a naïve and a radical form of environmental hope. It is argued that while the former type of hope leads to inactivity, the latter is capable of motivating individuals to pro-environmental action.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project
<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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