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"This book explores the contributions of East Asian traditions, particularly Buddhism and Daoism, to environmental philosophy in dialogue with European philosophy. It critically examines the conceptions of human responsibility toward nature and across time presented within these traditions. The volume rethinks human relationships to the natural world by focusing on three main themes: Daoist and Eurodaoist perspectives on nature, human responsibility toward nature, and Buddhist perspectives on life and nature. By way of discussing East Asian traditions and European thinkers, this collection reveals that the impact of humanity on the environment is shaped not only by distinctive modes of economic production, but also by cultural beliefs and practices. Representing a unique constellation of environmental and intercultural philosophy, the contributions present systematic approaches to the global need for cultivating environmental responsibility across cultures and generations to address the political, ethical, and aesthetic challenges arising from humanity's transformative impact on the natural world. Presenting a critical re-evaluation of human relationships to the natural world in dialogue with East Asian traditions, this will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Philosophy, Environmental Studies and Asian Studies"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Editors' introduction / Hiroshi Abe, Matthias Fritsch, Mario Wenning
• Nature and Dao in Huanglao Boshu / David Chai
• Eurodaoism and the environment / Mario Wenning
• Heidegger's Dao and the sources of critique / Matthias Fritsch
• How to inhabit the best of all possible worlds? Environmental responsibility in the light of Leibniz's conception of time / Sabine Baldin
• What is Oriental liberalism? / Hiroshi Abe
• Emptying ecology : Chan Buddhist antinomianism and environmental ethics / Eric Nelson
• Modification of life awareness and its poetic expressions in Japanese literature / Masataka Furusho
• In spite of nature and with time : freedom and responsibility. two Kantian spells and their possible refutation / Thomas Buchheim
• The person-affecting claim, non-identity problem, and future generations / Rui Han
• The deep layers of responsibility or anti-nature in nature / Ryosuke Ohashi
• Corporeality in an ecologically oriented aesthetics of nature / Zhuofei Wang.

Contributors:

Abe, Hiroshi, 1971- , editor

Fritsch, Matthias , editor

Wenning, Mario, 1978- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Environmental philosophy and East Asia (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 — ISBN 9781032107806; LCCN 2021062089)

Subjects:

Environmental sciences — East Asia — Philosophy

Environmental responsibility — East Asia

Environmental responsibility — Religious aspects — Taoism

Environmental responsibility — Religious aspects — Buddhism

Environmental sciences — Philosophy

Environmental sciences

Environmental responsibility

Environmental responsibility — Religious aspects

Taoism

East Asia

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hiroshi Abe is Professor of Philosophy and Logic at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. Matthias Fritsch is Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University, Canada. Mario Wenning is Professor at Loyola University Andalusia, Spain.
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Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GE40 .E585 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781003217305 (ebook)
1003217303 (ebook)
9781000604535 (electronic bk., EPUB)
1000604535 (electronic bk., EPUB)
9781000604504 (electronic bk., PDF)
1000604500 (electronic bk., PDF)
9781032107806 (hardback) [Invalid]
9781032108353 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021062090

OCLC Numbers:

1319346188