Addressing Contemporary Sustainability Challenges Through Eco-Imagination

Knowledge, Literature, Arts and the Sciences
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-06683-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Reihe: Analecta Husserliana

This contributed volume presents eco-imagination as a new tool for knowledge and cultural, artistic, as well as scientific expression.  Herein eco-phenomenology becomes capable of opening a viable path towards a future of environmental and human sustainability. The contemporary urgency of sustainable configurations of the world and of life has made clear the inadequacy of the traditional phenomenological conception of imagination, understood in the mere relationship with perception. These chapters verify the ecological potential of the imagination, thanks to which the latent virtualities in the processes of self-individualization that constitute evolving life become visible. The book collectively argues that only if we use the eco-imagination can one introduce new forms of design thinking needed, since they are intrinsic to the ontopoietic progression of the logos of life.  This volume appeals to students and researchers in phenomenology and related fields.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boccali, Renato

Verducci, Daniela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Variations in Eco-Imagination: Digital, Virtual and Artificial.- Chapter 1: The Mind-Object Identity (MOI) as a Foundation for an Onto-Phenomenology Endorsing a Sustainable and Adaptive Environmental Ethics. Prof. RICCARDO MANZOTTI, IULM University, Milan (Italy).- Chapter 2: Re-Imagining Fire. Incendiary Environments and Burning Bodies. Dr. GIULIO GALIMBERTI, State University, Milan (Italy).- Chapter 3: Eco-Imagination and Phenomenology of Quantum Physics. Prof. MAMOUKA DOLIDZE, State University of Tblisi (Georgia).- Chapter 4: Towards a Phenomenology of “Embodied Imagination”: from Merleau-Ponty to Virtual Reality. Dr. GIULIA ANDREINI, IULM University, Milan (Italy).- Chapter 5: Hermeneutics of Social Media Influence on Perception and Imagination. Dr. TATIANA DAVYDOVA, A.r.t.e.s. University of Cologne (Germany).- Chapter 6: The Virtual Eco-Image: A New Form of Hybrid Life. Prof. ROBERTO DIODATO, Catholic University, Milan (Italy).- Chapter 7: Neurophenomenological Perspectives on Artificial Imagination. Dr. MARIA RAFFA, IULM University, Milan (Italy).- Part 2: Eco-Imagination in Literature, Architecture and the Arts.- Chapter 8: Rethinking Literature: an Atlas for the Ecological Imagination. Prof. TOMMASO ARIEMMA, Academy of Fine Arts of Lecce (Italy).- Chapter 9: Ben Okri’s phenomenological eco-imagination in Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021): Retracing the paths into “the rites of vision and truth” for sustainability. Prof. ROSEMARY GRAY, University of Pretoria (South Africa).- Chapter 10: Space and Society. Eco-Imagining Participatory Processes for the Valorization of Common Goods. Arch. FRANCESCO CALZOLAIO, Venti di Cultura Association, Venice (Italy).- Chapter 11: “Creating Human Space”. Exploring Eco-phenomenology with Dietrich von Hildebrand and Roman Ingarden. Dr. GIUDITTA CORBELLA, Catholic University of Milan (Italy).- Chapter 12: Eco Centric City Planning and Its Distortions: Imagination Rejects Urban Sprawl, Time Dualism, and the Monastery. MICHAEL KAZANJIAN, Independent Scholar.- Chapter 13: Imagining Architecture. Prof. KIMIYO MURATA-SORACI, Tama University, Tokyo (Japan).- Chapter 14: Ontopoetic and Cosmic Dimensions in Paul Klee’s Works: Imagination and Creative Dynamics. Dr. INETA KIVLE, University of Latvia.- Chapter 15: The Process of Mentalization in Peter Fonagy’s Approach and the Formation of Eco-Imagination through Artistic Expression: a Challenge of the Present for the Future. Dr. MINA SEHDEV, University of Macerata (Italy).- Chapter 16: Phenomenological Insight into Ecotopian Imagination. Prof. VELGA VEVERE, University of Latvia.

Über Autor(innen)

Daniela Verducci, Dr. of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, retired since November 2018. Currently, holder of a teaching contract for an Advanced Seminar in Phenomenology at the University of Macerata (Italy). Co-President of The World Phenomenology Institute (European and Asian Divisions) and Co-editor in Chief of both the Springer series, ANHU and IPOP. Member of the Max-Scheler-Gesellschaft.

Renato Boccali is Professor at the IULM University of Milan teaching Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. He is the coordinator of the Master's degree course in Art, valorisation and the market and deputy coordinator of the PhD in Visual and Media Studies. His interests are focused mainly on theories and practices of image in the contemporary world, the phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition, the philosophy of translation as well as the relationships between philosophy, arts and literature.