Becoming a Place of Unrest: Environmental Crisis and Ecophenomenological Praxis
Robert Booth, "Becoming a Place of Unrest: Environmental Crisis and Ecophenomenological Praxis "
English | ISBN: 0821424564 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 1010 KB
English | ISBN: 0821424564 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 1010 KB
The key to mitigating the environmental crisis isn’t just based on science; it depends upon a profound philosophical revision of how we think about and behave in relation to the world.
Our ongoing failure to interrupt the environmental crisis in a meaningful way stems, in part, from how we perceive the environment—what Robert Booth calls the "more-than-human world.” Anthropocentric presumptions of this world, inherited from natural science, have led us to better scientific knowledge about environmental problems and more science-based—yet inadequate—practical “solutions.” That’s not enough, Booth argues. Rather, he asserts that we must critically and self-reflexively revise how we perceive and consider ourselves within the more-than-human world as a matter of praxis in order to arrest our destructive impact on it.
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