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Environmental Hermeneutics in the Anthropocene is a diverse collection of essays that approach contemporary environmental problems with the tools and perspectives provided by the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, advanced by philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur.
Engaging both established and new voices, this book presents a significant contribution to the field by expanding the scope of philosophical hermeneutics to environmental issues. It addresses a broad scope of environmental topics such as the Anthropocene, climate change, degrowth, environmental justice, the limits of language in understanding nature, and environmental aesthetics in environmental practice. Together, the chapters show the crisis of regional and global environmental problems to be in part a crisis of interpretation. The ways that human beings understand their relationship to environments shape and determine how to act and live within places. Yet the values and ideals that different people have about their lived environments often come into conflict. Thus hermeneutics plays an important role in environmental discourse: it helps adjudicate these conflicting understandings.
This collection of essays demonstrates the unique way that environmental hermeneutics can be employed to understand environments in this age of the Anthropocene. It will appeal to researchers and upper-level students in environmental humanities, environmental studies, ethics and philosophy.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Preface
David Utsler & Brian Treanor
Introduction
David Utsler & Brian Treanor
1 Earthy Hermeneutics: Beyond the Metaphor of the Text
Brian Treanor
2 Translating Nature: Hermeneutics, Otherness, and the Limits of Environmental Understanding
Nathan M. Bell
3 Hermeneutics in the Wilderness
Cassandra Falke
4 Interpretation and the Anthropocene
Alexander Federau
5 The Hermeneutical Challenge of the Anthropocene: Rethinking Environmental Hermeneutics
Patryk Szaj
6 Sacrifice Zones and Interpreting the Anthropocene
Forrest Clingerman
7 The Beautiful and the Good in Practice: Gadamer and Environmental Hermeneutics
William Konchak
8 Is There a Measure on Earth? Heidegger and the Hermeneutical Problems of De-growth
Magdalena Hoły-Łuczaj
9 Situating Hermeneutics in Environmental Humanities: place, meaning, and interpretation
Martinho Soares
10 Interpreting Environmental Sustainability: Envisioning a Sustainable Future with Paul Ricoeur
Maria Cristina Clorinda Vendra
11 Fragility and Finitude in the Face of the Climate Crisis: On Worldview and Action
Christina M. Gschwandtner
12 Re-Placing Displacement
David Utsler
13 Sketching Gadamer's Contribution to Landscape Aesthetics: Play, Space, and Historicity
Elena Romagnoli
Afterword: Environmental Justice and the Moral Terrains of Environmental Hermeneutics in the Anthropocene
Robert Melchior Figueroa
