1st Edition

The Ethos of the Climate Event Ethical Transformations and Political Subjectivities

By Kellan Anfinson Copyright 2021
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

This book develops a politico-ethical response to climate change that accounts for the novelty and uncertainty that it entails. This volume explores the ethical dimensions of climate change and posits that one must view it as a social construction intimately tied to political issues in order to understand and overcome this environmental challenge. To show how this ethos builds upon the need... Read more

1. The Challenge to Ethics: Climate Change as Event

2. Impassioned Trouble: Committing to the Event

3. The Self in the Social: Sensitivity to an Eventful World

4. Risk or Security: Politics in the Event

5. Power and Possibility: Techniques of the Event

6. An Ethos for the Climate Event

Biography

Kellan Anfinson is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Bard College, USA

"This innovative analysis leverages insights from Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Schmitt and Foucault to develop a much-needed ethos for responding to the event of climate change, which is defining the Anthropocene. It is an invaluable study of political subjectivity in these conditions as well as a guide for the ethical transformations required to respond to these challenges." -- Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA

"A powerful intervention into the debates on the political philosophy of our climate crisis." -- Joel Wainwright, The Ohio State University, USA