Cultural Sustainability

Torsten Meireis is Professor of Theology, Ethics and Hermeneutics at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Gabriele Rippl is Professor and Chair of Literatures in English at Bern, Switzerland

Part 1: Concepts of Culture and Cultural Sustainability 1. Introduction Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl 2. Culture and Sustainable Development from a UN Perspective Michael Gerber 3. The Future of Cultural Heritage and Its Challenges Aleida Assmann 4. Cultural Sustainability in Times of Cultural Genocide Wolfgang Huber 5. Sustainable Development and the Concept of Culture – An Ethical View Torsten Meireis Part 2: Philosophy, Sociology, Economics and Cultural Sustainability 6. Sustainability and Modernisation in Conflict: On Roger Scruton’s Conservative Green Philosophy Anton Leist 7. Culture, Consumption and Sustainability in a Sociological Perspective Ulf Liebe 8. Social Happiness as a Cultural Value: An Analysis of Shared Values for Ecosystem Assessment Galit P. Wellner 9. Challenges of Cultural Sustainability on an (Inter)Planetary Scale Andreas Losch 10. Sustainability’s Promise of Salvation? A Kuhnian Reconstruction of Sustainability from Resource Management to Contingency Management Marius Christen, Peter Seele, Lucas Zapf Part 3: The Arts, Literature and Cultural Sustainability: Theoretical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 11. Culture and the Arts in Sustainable Development: Rethinking Sustainability Research Sacha Kagan 12. Cultural Ecology and the Sustainability of Literature Hubert Zapf 13. An Entangled History of Environmental and Cultural Sustainability: Satirical Reflections on the German Forest and the German Oak as Resources of Cultural Energy Evi Zemanek 14. The Cultural Sustainability of Victorian Waste Ursula Kluwick 15. The Moral Dilemma of Unsustainability: Eco-dystopian Fiction as Cultural Critique Alexa Weik von Mossner 16. A Tale of Love and Fallout: Lauren Redniss’ Graphic Narrative and the Ecological Imaginary Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl 17. Sustainability, Eco-Ekphrasis and the Ethics of Literary Description Gabriele Rippl 18. Ecogames: Playing to Save the Planet Joost Raessens Part 4: Conclusion 19. Conclusion Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl