The Development of Eco-Phenomenology as an Interpretative Paradigm of the Living World: Applications in Pandemic Times

ISBN-13: 9783031077562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 357 str.

Daniela Verducci;Maija Kule

Opis

This volume presents eco-phenomenology's role in pandemics and post-pandemics and takes up the task of eco-phenomenology as a unified project by not focusing on naturalizing phenomenology but rather exploring the full range of possibilities - such as creative acts and self-individualization - in dealing with ecological threats. Eco-phenomenological developments are based on the main concepts of "phenomenology of life", as created by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. This volume also uniquely explores the Covid-19 pandemic as a phenomenologically interpreted and ecological phenomenon. It appeals to students and researchers working in the fields of phenomenology and environmental philosophy.

Spis treści

Preface. Dr. DANIELA VERDUCCI, Co-President of The World Phenomenology Institute (European Division), University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy

PART 1. ENCHANTMENT OF LIFE, NATURE AND ONTOPOIETIC ECOSYSTEM 

 

Chapter 1. The Importance of Eco-phenomenology in the Understanding of Pandemic Crisis: New Turns and Concepts. Dr. habil. phil., MAIJA KŪLE, professor, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Chapter 2. The Ontopoietic Phenomenology: Orchestrating an Ecological Vision of Life. CARMEN COZMA, professor, Department of Philosophy, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania

Chapter 3. Logos, Logic, and the Explication of Life. Dr. OLGA LOUCHAKOVA-SCHWARZ, Clinical Professor at the University of California, Davis Adjunct Lecturer in Spirituality and Phenomenology of Religion, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, USA

Chapter 4. People on the E(e)arth: Eco-Phenomenological Turns of Life and Vital life Understanding in Current Situation of Humanism/Post-humanism. Dr. phil. ELLA BUCENIECE, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia 

Chapter 5. The Body as an Ontopoietic Ecosystem that Somatizes Otherness. ROBERTO MARCHESINI, Centre Study for Post-human Philosophy, Bologna, Italy

Chapter 6. Sharing-in-Life: Man, Nature, Community. Dr. philol., ZAIGA IKERE, professor, University of Daugavpils, city Daugavpils, Latvia

Chapter 7. Conscious and Unconscious Life – the Origins of Unconsciousness. BENCE PETER MAROSAN, Budapest Business School, College of International Management and Business, Budapest, Hungary

Chapter 8. Attitude and Neutralization. To the Origin of Fictions: “Being”, “Nothingness”, and “Time”. VICTOR MOLCHANOV, professor, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

Chapter 9. The Concept of Life (Existence), Logos and Ontopoiesis. DOMINGUEZ REY ANTONIO, Departamento de Lengua Española y Lingűística General, Facultad de Filologia, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

Chapter 10. Eco-Phenomenology and the Question of Being and Being-in -the -World. OLIVER HOLMES, Professor of European Intellectual History, Wesleyan University, USA

Chapter 11. The Harmony between Human and Cosmos as Problem of Sense. FRANCESCO TOTARO, professor, University of Macerata, city Macerata, Italy

Chapter 12. My Pen is Smarter then Me. (On the background of existential phenomenology, phenomenology of life by Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa and on the phenomenology of  human person by American philosopher  Robert Sokolowski). Dr. phil. MAMUKA DOLIDZE, professor, Tbilisi Javakhishvili State university, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Chapter 13.  On Harmony. DEBIKA SAHA, Department of Philosophy, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

PART II. HUMAN CONDITION IN THE PANDEMIC ENVIRONMENT: SPACES, DWELLINGS, FEELINGS AND SENSATIONS 

Chapter 14. Returning Home. ALGIS MICKUNAS, professor, Ohio University, USA

Chapter 15. Aesthetics of the Uncanny – Sacred Spaces and Environments. 

THOMAS RYBA, Director of Religious Studies, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies and Philosophy at Purdue University, President of and Notre Dame Theologian for the Aquinas Educational Foundation

St. Thomas Aquinas Center, State West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Chapter 16. Psychic Involvements and Spiritual Reactions at Time of the Pandemic Disease. A Phenomenological Philosophical and Psychopathological Approach. ANGELA ALES BELLO, professor, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, Italy

Chapter 17. Phenomenology of Forms of Dwellings: The Self, Others and the Uncanny. Dr. phil., IGORS ŠUVAJEVS, professor, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Chapter 18. The Phenomenology of the In - Visibility of Coronavirus. Dr. phil. ULDIS VĒGNERS, senior researcher, assistant professor, Riga Stradins university, Riga, Latvia

Chapter 19. Breathing: the Ambiguities of Corporeal Nexus in Times of Pandemic. GINTA VĒJA, researcher, lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Chapter 20. Phenomenology of Ambient Urbanism. Earth and Sky. Dr. habil. phil. MĀRA RUBENE, professor, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

PART III. WE-CONSCIOUSNESS, BEING TOGETHER AND THE NEED FOR ECOLOGICAL SOLIDARITY

Chapter 21. Dialectics of Openness and Closeness during the Quarantine. Dr. phil., TOMAS KAČERAUSKAS, prof. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania

Chapter 22. Eco-phenomenological Interpretation of Autonomous Being in the Time of Pandemic and Eco-anxiety.  Dr. habil. phil. MAIJA KŪLE, professor, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Chapter 23. Virtual Collectivities at the Age of Pandemics: Phenomenological Analysis of Being Alone Together. Dr. phil. TONU VIIK, professor, Tallin University, Tallin, Estonia

Chapter 24. Unity in Diversity: The Experience of Borderline Situations and the 

Courage to Be. The Existential Approach to the Pandemic Times. Dr. Phil. ANNA MALECKA, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland and Dr. Phil. PIOTR MROZ, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Chapter 25. Varieties of Distancing Experience. Dr. phil. VELGA VĒVERE, professor, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Chapter 26.  Mark your Distance! Do not Anybody Touch Me! Phenomenological Intersubjectivity or Postmodern Approach?  Dr. phil. INETA KIVLE, vice-director of the Academic Library, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Chapter 27. Together and Apart: Variations on the Husserl's Fifth Cartesian Meditation in the Coronavirus Pandemic. Dr. phil. TOMAS SODEIKA, professor, LINA VIDAUSKYTĖ, Dr. phil., Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania 

Chapter 28. The Human Condition of Being in Horror: Radiation, Terrorism, Viruses. Dr. phil. MĀRIS KŪLIS, senior researcher, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Chapter 29. The State of Mental Health During the Pandemic Crisis and Forced Isolation. GIULIO LO BELLO, lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Chapter 30.  An Eco-phenomenological Reading of Ben Okri's A Fire in My Head. ROSEMARY GRAY, professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa

O autorze

Daniela Verducci, Dr. of Philosophy, Associated Professor of Moral Philosophy, retired since November 2018. Currently, holder of a teaching contract at the University of Macerata (Italy). Co-President of The World Phenomenology Institute (European Division) and Co-editor in Chief of both the Springer series, ANHU and IPOP. Member of the Max-Scheler-Gesellschaft.

Maija Kūle, Dr. habil. phil., Professor, Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, full member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences and European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 15 years elected member of FISP CD; expert in science ethics at the European Commission, COST project’s expert, the highest Order of the Latvia’s state – Three Stars, commander.