Kinship and relationality as foundations for environmental emotions

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F24%3A39922428" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/24:39922428 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003490487-16/kinship-relationality-foundations-environmental-emotions-antony-fredriksson?context=ubx&refId=188c97a9-c4e8-40d0-b209-7d2b24ac02f6" target="_blank" >https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003490487-16/kinship-relationality-foundations-environmental-emotions-antony-fredriksson?context=ubx&refId=188c97a9-c4e8-40d0-b209-7d2b24ac02f6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003490487-16" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003490487-16</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Kinship and relationality as foundations for environmental emotions

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Kinship and relationality as foundations for environmental emotions

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA22-15446S" target="_blank" >GA22-15446S: "EKEZÚZMHT". Špatný pocit ohledně klimatu atd. a jeho různé formy</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions Grief, Hope, and Beyond

ISBN

978-1-03-279093-0

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

230-245

Počet stran knihy

336

Název nakladatele

Routledge

Místo vydání

New York

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

—