1st Edition
Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil Decreation for the Anthropocene
Introduction: Finding Simone Weil in an Ecological Void
Part I: 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 II: Plato and the Environment
6. Contemporary Dualist Ecological Readings of Plato’s Phaedrus
7. A Non-dual Reading of Plato via Metaxu (μεταξύ)
Part III: Decreation for the Anthropocene
8. Weil and Anthropocene Ethics
9. A Weilian-Inspired Ecological Ethics
10. Action in the Anthropocene
Biography
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.
"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
