Current Challenges of Environmental Philosophy (New Research in the History of Western Philosophy, 3)

This book is full of polemical ideas that bring an urgent call for a multifaceted interdisciplinary collaboration in a time of deep environmental, as well as political, economic and cultural crisis. Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 Some Dilemmas of Environmental Philosophy: from the Anthropocene to the Anthropo-Scene 1 Introduction 2 Science as an Institution 3 The Biodiversity Dispute 4 Environmental Philosophy, the Anthropocene, and the Real World 2 Ecological Civilization as a Philosophical and Political Concept 1 Introduction 2 The Concept of Ecological Civilization in China 3 On the Terms of Culture and Civilization 4 The Nature of Environmental Policies Inspired by the Concept of Ecological Civilization 5 Risks and Contradictions 6 Conclusion Acknowledgements 3 Common Ownership or Global Commons? 1 Introduction 2 Common Ownership of the Earth as a Ground of Global Justice 3 Earth: Commonly Owned or Commonly (Un)Sustained? 3.1 Common Resources and Regimes of (Global) Commons 4 Basic Needs, Sustainability Constraints and Human Rights 4.1 Basic Needs and Human Rights 5 Just Emissions or the Atmosphere as a Global Common? 6 Conclusion 4 The Cold War on Global Heating 1 Introduction 2 No to Further Liberalisation of Apertistic Liberalism 3 No to the Further Post-Industrialisation of Post-Industrial Political Economy 4 No to Further Rationalisation of Modern Rationality 5 The Atrophy of Political Theory 6 Conclusion Note on the Text Acknowledgements 5 Are We Risking Too Much the Sustainability of the Anthropocene Technosphere? 1 Introduction 2 What Is This Thing Called the Technosphere 2.1 Definition 2.2 Properties 2.3 Dynamics 3 Technosphere and Anthropocene: a Coeval, Co-dependent and Co-evolving Relationship 4 Sustainability of the Technosphere and Anthropocene Risks 4.1 Fine-Tuning the Meaning of Sustainability 4.2 A New Category of Risk for the Age of the Human 5 Recycling a Forward-Looking Idea: the Sustainability Geoscope 6 Conclusion Note on the Text 6 The Potential of Environmental Citizenship in Facing Environmental Challenges and the Limits 1 Introduction 2 Citizenship Institute and the Environmental Citizenship Dimension 3 Environmental Responsibility and the Limits of Its Individual Dimension in the Context of Creating Effective Change 4 Environmental Citizenship in Facing Current Environmental Challenges 5 Conclusion 7 Changing the Philosophy of Education According to Nietzsche and Fink 1 Introduction 2 Almighty Experts in a Long Shadow of Dead God 3 Stubborn Metaphysical Dreams – A Requiem Mass Goes On 4 Nihilism – Human Character Stripped Down to the Bone 5 From Stomach to God on Banknotes 6 We, the Mistaken Heirs of Greeks 7 Zarathustra’s Cosmological Philosophy as Education for the Unrooted Acknowledgements Index "It is extremely difficult to seek new paths in the twilight of our former idols, ideals and visions of a happy and successful life. The authors of the book invite the reader to embark on this journey in a free-spirited manner and to look at the challenges posed by the new climate regime from different perspectives. Whether one accepts the concept of the Anthropocene as a starting point, or rather as an opportunity for constructive criticism, readers will be fully engaged by thinking through historical-philosophical, scientific, political, social, as well as educational problems"