UID:
almahu_9949866023302882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 201 pages) :
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color illustrations.
ISBN:
9781003449621
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100344962X
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9781040021491
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1040021492
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9781040021507
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1040021506
Series Statement:
Routledge environmental ethics
Uniform Title:
Decreation for the Anthropocene
Content:
"This book places the philosophy of Simone Weil into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns in the Anthropocene. The book offers a systematic interpretation of Simone Weil, making her ethical philosophy more accessible to non-Weil scholars. Weil's work has been influential in many fields, including politically and theologically-based critiques of social inequalities and suffering, but rarely linked to ecology. Kathryn Lawson argues that Weil's work can be understood as offering a coherent approach with potentially widespread appeal applicable to our ethical relations to much more than just other human beings. She suggests that the process of 'decreation' in Weil is an expansion of the self which might also come to include the surrounding earth and a vast assemblage of others. This allows readers to consider what it means to be human in this time and place, and to contemplate our ethical responsibilities both to other humans and also to the more-than-human world. Ultimately, the book uses Weil's thought to propose a decreative ecological ethics that decenters the human being by cultivating human actions towards an ecological ethics. This book will be useful for Simone Weil scholars and academics, as well as students and researchers interested in environmental ethics in departments of comparative literature, theory and criticism, philosophy, and environmental studies"--
Note:
Revision of the author's thesis (PhD, Queen's University, 2022) under the title: Decreation for the Anthropocene.
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"Earthscan from Routledge" - title page.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Lawson, Kathryn. Ecological ethics and the philosophy of Simone Weil Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032583297
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003449621
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003449621
