Environmental Skill
Motivation, Knowledge, and the Possibility of a Non-Romantic Environmental Ethics
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:4th Mar '15
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This thought-provoking work explores the disconnect between environmental knowledge and action, proposing a new concept of environmental skill to inspire change.
Today, it is widely acknowledged that we face significant environmental challenges. Despite our awareness, action often falls short. What accounts for this disconnect between knowledge and motivation? Environmental Skill delves into these pressing questions through a philosophical lens, examining the conditions that hinder meaningful change in our lives. The author investigates how we can cultivate a stronger motivation for environmental stewardship and identifies the types of knowledge necessary to foster this commitment.
In exploring the interplay between motivation, knowledge, and modernity, Environmental Skill reviews various philosophical and psychological approaches to address the pervasive apathy surrounding environmental issues. The author critiques the traditional frameworks of detached reasoning and emotional authenticity, which can lead to disengagement from our surroundings. Instead, a new concept of environmental skill is proposed. This innovative idea acts as a bridge between theoretical knowledge and practical action, reinterpreting the notion of environmental virtue through the lens of experiential learning and skillful engagement.
The implications of this environmental ethics are profound, influencing our perspectives on health, food, energy, climate change, politics, and technology. By emphasizing the importance of skills and hands-on experience, Environmental Skill encourages readers to rethink their relationship with the environment and take meaningful steps toward sustainable living.
"Coeckelbergh’s book stands as a reminder that practicing environmental philosophy always means relating to one’s environment in a certain way and that questioning and skillfully dealing with this relation remains an ongoing task." - Jochem Zwier, Human Studies Journal
"A much-needed fresh approach to the environmental concerns of the average person."—Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond, USA
"Environmental ethics often seeks to develop a suitably modern solution to the problems imposed by modernity—solutions rooted in enlightenment thinking and romanticism. Mark Coeckelbergh’s Environmental Skill takes an entirely different approach, demonstrating that it is modernity that is the problem and developing an innovative form of environmental ethics that relies not on better knowledge about the world but more attentive and skill ways of being-in-the-world." —David J. Gunkel, Northern Illinois University, USA
"This new book by Mark Coeckelbergh is an insightful argument for an environmental philosophy that draws on the resources of and at the same time extends work in philosophy of technology. The notion of skilled engagement with the world as this has emerged from pragmatism and phenomenology is here deepened and re-thought in an effort to understand and respond to the challenges of living in a techno-transformed nature." —Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, USA
"Coeckelbergh’s book stands as a reminder that practicing environmental philosophy always means relating to one’s environment in a certain way and that questioning and skillfully dealing with this relation remains an ongoing task."—Jochem Zwier, Human Studies Journal
"There is much for contemporary environmentalists to find compelling about Coeckelbergh's account, being not only an interesting analysis of the factors at work in motivation but also a convincing and optimistic approach to the problem...It is a welcome and interesting addition to a field in need of voices focused on bringing about meaningful, practical change." —Tara Kennedy, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
ISBN: 9781138885578
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 476g
228 pages