Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development (SUNY series in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology)

This book examines how a phenomenological approach helps move us closer toward safeguarding our common future by evolving a more originative and informed way of thinking about the foundations of sustainable development. Phenomenology, as conceived by Heidegger, enlarges and deepens our ways of thinking about sustainable development and offers a unique methodology of environmental policy development and planning. [from publisher's advertisment]. Read more... This Book Examines How A Phenomenological Approach Helps Move Us Closer Toward Safeguarding Our Common Future By Evolving A More Originative And Informed Way Of Thinking About The Foundations Of Sustainable Development. Phenomenology, As Conceived By Heidegger, Enlarges And Deepens Our Ways Of Thinking About Sustainable Development And Offers A Unique Methodology Of Environmental Policy Development And Planning.--jacket. I. Problems With Current Thinking About Sustainable Development. The Challenge Of Sustainability In A Postmodern World -- The Brundtland Report And Limits Of Techne -- Calculation And Sustainability -- Ii. Foundations Of Phenomenological Thought. The Possibilities Of Originative Thinking -- Ontological Foundations Of Environmental Thinking -- Ontology And Ethics -- Iii. Phenomenological Guidelines For Sustainability. The Emergence Of Place -- Place-based Ethics -- Phenomenology And Sustainability -- Phenomenology, Sustainability, And The Lived World. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 183-228) And Index. Utilizes Heidegger in rethinking common environmental paradigms.This book examines how a phenomenological approach helps move us closer toward safeguarding our common future by evolving a more originative and informed way of thinking about the foundations of sustainable development. Phenomenology, as conceived by Heidegger, enlarges and deepens our ways of thinking about sustainable development and offers a unique methodology of environmental policy development and planning.Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Event of Death: A Phenomenological Enquiry and coeditor of Great Lakes Megalopolis: From Civilizations to Ecumenization, with Alexander B. Leman. I. Problems with Current Thinking about Sustainable Development -- 1. The Challenge of Sustainability in a Postmodern World -- 2. The Brundtland Report and Limits of Techne -- 3. Calculation and Sustainability -- II. Foundations of Phenomenological Thought -- 4. The Possibilities of Originative Thinking -- 5. Ontological Foundations of Environmental Thinking -- 6. Ontology and Ethics -- III. Phenomenological Guidelines for Sustainability -- 7. The Emergence of Place -- 8. Place-Based Ethics -- 9. Phenomenology and Sustainability -- 10. Phenomenology, Sustainability, and the Lived World -- App. Heidegger's Politics. "This book examines how a phenomenological approach helps move us closer toward safeguarding our common future by evolving a more originative and informed way of thinking about the foundations of sustainable development. Phenomenology, as conceived by Heidegger, enlarges and deepens our ways of thinking about sustainable development and offers a unique methodology of environmental policy development and planning."--BOOK JACKET.