Kathryn Lawson

Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil

Decreation for the Anthropocene

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Produktbeschreibung

This book places the philosophy of Simone Weil into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns in the Anthropocene. For Simone Weil scholars and academics, as well as students and researchers interested in environmental ethics in departments of comparative literature, theory and criticism, philosophy, and environmental studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9781032583266
• ISBN-10: 1032583266
• Artikelnr.: 75424217

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Lawson is a lecturer of philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is co-editor of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations (2024) and Breached Horizons: The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion (2017) and author of a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Finding Simone Weil in an Ecological Void Part 1. Growing
Roots: A Reading of Simone Weil 1. Mapping an Ethics of Decreation 2. The
Faculties 3. The Power of Force 4. Attention and Mediation 5. Decreation
and Action Part 2. Plato and the Environment 6. Contemporary Dualistic
Ecological Readings of Plato's Phaedrus 7. A Nondual Reading of Plato via
Metaxu Part 3. Decreation for the Anthropocene 8. Weil and Anthropocene
Ethics 9. A Weilian-Inspired Ecological Ethics 10. Action in the
Anthropocene

Rezensionen

"In response to the traumas of climate catastrophe, Lawson's Ecological Ethics shows us that suffering and beauty can be integrated at the heart of environmental consciousness. Like Keller's Face of the Deep and Leopold's Sand County Almanac, this is a rare treasure that unites profound intellectual insight and ethical urgency."

Daniel O'Dea Bradley, Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University, USA