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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F24%3A00586723" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/24:00586723 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11240/24:10484051

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Za hranice bezpečnosti: role konfliktu v posilování odolnosti</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Human Studies

ISSN

0163-8548

e-ISSN

1572-851X

Svazek periodika

47

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

771-791

Kód UT WoS článku

001234568900002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85194885128