The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions

Ondřej Beran is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and one of the Heads of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. His recent publications include Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking (Routledge 2021). Laura Candiotto is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. Among her recent publications is “What I cannot do without you” (Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2022). Niklas Forsberg is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and one of the Heads of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. His recent publications include Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary (Routledge, 2021). Antony Fredriksson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and one of the Heads of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), University of Pardubice. His recent publications include A Phenomenology of Attention and the Unfamiliar (2022). David Rozen is a PhD candidate and an external lecturer of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Pardubice. Recently, he edited a collection of Czech translations of canonical writings in environmental philosophy, Příroda a postoje k ní (to appear, 2024).

Foreword “Adversity is the first path to truth": How climate grief could be the making of us Rupert Read The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions: Introduction Ondřej Beran, Laura Candiotto, Niklas Forsberg, Antony Fredriksson, and David Rozen Part I: Language, Concepts, and Sense-making 1. Clarifying Climate Emotions via their Foci David Rozen, Petr Vaškovic and Gabriela Vičanová 2. Conceptual Change in Emotional Contexts Niklas Forsberg 3. Beyond "Grievability": Toward an Affective and Moral Lexicon for the Anthropocene Maria Antonaccio 4. How to Speak of Nonhuman Ghosts: Language, Moral Beauty, and Animal Ethical Mourning Elisa Aaltola Part II: Living in Community 5. Hope and Agency in a Time of Environmental Upheaval Nora Hämäläinen 6. Hope and Realizing the Potentials of the Past Kenneth Shockley 7. Natality, Parenthood, and Climate Hope Tom Whyman 8. No Hope Without Hope for All: Arendt and Hope as a Communal Endeavour Rooted in the Shared Condition of Natality Olena Kushyna 9. Putting Grief to Work: Planting Hope for Rainforest-Futures as a Multispecies Care Ella Chiara Vallelonga 10. Friendship and Politics Ondřej Beran Part III: The Displaced Self 11. Loving a Place that is Dying Laura Candiotto 12. Kinship and Relationality as Foundations for Environmental Emotions Antony Fredriksson 13. In Defence of Despair about Climate Breakdown Anh-Quân Nguyen 14. Ecological Grief, Ambiguous Loss, and the Slow Violence of Extraction Anna Gleizer and Pablo Fernandez Velasco Afterword 15. Environmental Grief, Despair, and Meaning: Concluding Discussion Panu Pihkala