Planetary thinking in the era of global warming
This article presents in a programmatic form the task of continental philosophy today. My starting point is one of the major challenges – if not the major challenge – today for all academic research, including philosophy, namely, global warming. I show how my specific subfield, continental philosoph...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Journal of global ethics
Year: 2025, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 11-24 |
| Further subjects: | B
Climate Change
B Continental Philosophy B Environmental Ethics B Global warming B phenomenological concept of world |
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| Summary: | This article presents in a programmatic form the task of continental philosophy today. My starting point is one of the major challenges – if not the major challenge – today for all academic research, including philosophy, namely, global warming. I show how my specific subfield, continental philosophy, can pick up this challenge and contribute to the discussion. I claim that global warming requires us to reconfigure the field of philosophy and reformulate many of its fundamental problems. I will single out three major problematics. The first, the question ‘what is thinking?,’ starts by a kind of existential analytic of being-in-the-world of global warming and shows how it leads to reconfiguring what counts as thinking in terms of a kind of rational imagination. The second, the question ‘what is world? shows why the classical phenomenological concept of world needs to be reformulated in the global context. The third, the question of ethics and politics, shows how the relation of existents (human beings and other living beings) to the world, the concept of ethical agency, and the concept of political community need to be reformulated in the context of global warming. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-9634 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of global ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17449626.2025.2482728 |
