Overview
This anthology combines an intercultural approach with intergenerational ethics to address critical environmental challenges. Written by scholars from all over the world, including Canada, the US, New Zealand, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Japan, the UK, China, and Spain, this book offers new perspectives on how to foster sustainable societal practises that draw on the past and are fair to future generations. It introduces the Māori idea that views all things and human generations in layered relations; Indigenous accounts of spiralling time and reciprocities among ancestors and descendants; the philosophical dimensions of Chinese conceptions of ancestor spirits and future ghosts; and African accounts of anamnestic solidarity among generations. These ideas influence proposals for how to confront ending worlds and address the environmental future of humanity, making this book a valuable resource for scholars and students of environmental law and policy, environmental humanities, political science, and intercultural and comparative philosophy, as well as policymakers.
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Author: Hiroshi Abe (Kyoto University) ,
Matthias Fritsch (Concordia University, Montréal) ,
Mario Wenning (Loyola University, Spain)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009343749
ISBN 10: 1009343742
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 21 March 2024
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Hiroshi Abe is Professor of Philosophy at Kyoto University, Japan. He received the Philipp Franz von Siebold Prize 2017. He has published extensively on the topics of ontology, environmental philosophy, and Japanese philosophy. He co-edited Environmental Philosophy and East Asia: Nature Time Responsibility (Routledge, 2022) with Matthias Fritsch and Mario Wenning. Matthias Fritsch is Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University, Canada. His previous publications include The Promise of Memory (State University of New York Press, 2005) and Taking Turns with the Earth (Stanford University Press, 2018), as well as the edited volumes Environmental Philosophy and East Asia (Routledge 2022), Eco-Deconstruction (Fordham UP, 2018) and Reason and Emancipation (Humanity Press, 2007). Mario Wenning is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Andalusia, Spain. Recent publications include the co-edited volumes The Right to Resist: Philosophies of Dissent (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Environmental Philosophy and East Asia (Routledge 2022). He has been a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Frankfurt and is a recipient of the Dao Annual Best Essay Award.
