Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil

Decreation for the Anthropocene
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-58329-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Ethics

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 decenter 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.

For further discussion on the book, please check out the following podcast and book launch links below:

- https://youtu.be/oOUEeSiMrh8?si=eLXDpKrQHd8E6SFU

- https://youtu.be/sIc1jIw_CW8?si=xQPeW4iK-8vC3pnA

- https://youtu.be/jf12ZVRr3oY?si=z7Z9xRdEn8fhaMGY

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lawson, Kathryn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Finding Simone Weil in an Ecological Void Part 1. Growing Roots: A Reading of Simone Weil 1. Mapping an Ethics of Decreation  2. The Faculties 3. The Power of Force 4. Attention and Mediation 5. Decreation and Action Part 2. Plato and the Environment  6. Contemporary Dualistic Ecological Readings of Plato’s Phaedrus  7. A Nondual Reading of Plato via Metaxu Part 3. Decreation for the Anthropocene 8. Weil and Anthropocene Ethics  9. A Weilian-Inspired Ecological Ethics 10. Action in the Anthropocene

Über Autor(innen)

Kathryn Lawson is a lecturer of philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is co-editor of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations (2024) and Breached Horizons: The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion (2017) and author of a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters.