Overview
- Includes new theories and methodologies on elemental and embodied cross-cultural thinking of nature
- Original presentation of older ideas and gaps in environmental discourse; rigorously researched and presented
- Novel contribution to environmental humanities and elemental philosophy of nature
Part of the book series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures (SCPT, volume 42)
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Keywords
- Environmental Humanities
- Elemental Philosophy
- Embodied Critical Thinking
- Elemental Philosophy of Religion
- Cognitive and Affective Paradigms in Environmental Thinking
- First Nations Indigenous Ontology
- Responses to Climate Change in Humanities
- Philosophy of Nature
- Paradigm Shift and Environmental Philosophy
- Environmental Ethics
- environmental philosophy
- atmospheres of breathing
- through vegetal being
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Buddhism
- Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas
- Rationality and Tribal Thought
Table of contents (12 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lenart Škof is professor of philosophy and religious studies and is among the leading international scholars in the field of respiratory-elemental thinking. His main research interests lie in ethics, philosophical theology, comparative religion with intercultural philosophy, and feminist philosophy. His most recent books include God in Post-Christianity: An Elemental Philosophical Theology (SUNY Press, 2024), Antigone’s Sisters: On the Matrix of Love (SUNY Press, 2021), Atmospheres of Breathing, ed. by L. Škof and P. Berndtson (SUNY Press, 2018), Ethik des Atems (Freiburg: Herder/Karl Alber, 2017) and Breath of Proximity: Intersubjectivity, Ethics, and Peace (Springer, 2015).
Sashinungla is professor of philosophy at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Her main research interests are ethics, feminist philosophy, environmental philosophy, and indigenous philosophy. Her books include Tradition and Modernity: Essays on Women of India (coedited; Suryodaya Books, 2015), Environment Preservation: A Philosophical Critique (Decent Books, 2005), and Ethics and Culture: Some Indian Reflections (co-edited; Decent Books, 2010). Her current research projects focus on tribal philosophy, elemental and embodied cross-cultural philosophy of nature, and social and political ethics.
Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir is professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland and former Erkko professor at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She is an internationally known Nietzsche-scholar and a leading scholar in feminist philosophy with a special emphasis on philosophy of embodiment, nature and the environment. Among her recent publications are Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning (Routledge 2024, ed. with D. Schoeller and G. Walkerden) and Methodological Reflections on Women´s Contribution and Influence in the History of Philosophy (Springer 2020, ed. with R. Hagengruber).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era
Editors: Lenart Škof, Sashinungla, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir
Series Title: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42119-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42118-1Published: 04 May 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42121-1Due: 26 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42119-8Published: 03 May 2024
Series ISSN: 2211-1107
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1115
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 194
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Nature, Religious Studies, general, Philosophy of Religion, Environmental Geography, Ecology, Philosophy of Mind