1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology
1. Introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology
Michael T. Heneise, Cassandra Falke, Espen Dahl, Alice Sundman, and Edvard Lia
Section 1. Given Nature
2. Transcending the Object Horizon: Nature as Given and Saturated Phenomenon
Thor Eirik Eriksen
3. Eco-Phenomenology and the Theological Turn? Passivity, Activity, and Traumatic Being
Calvin D. Ullrich
4. Birth, Nature, and Repetition: Arendt and Beyond
Espen Dahl
5. The Mirror-Play of Being Used and Needed: Rereading (Ge-)brauchen in Heidegger for Eco-Phenomenology
Magdalena Hoły-Łuczaj
Section 2. Passivity and Perception
6. Earth Un-Earthed: Total Solar Eclipses as Sur-Réflexion on the Earthborne Topology of Flesh, with Remarks on Transcendental Geology
David Morris
7. Aesthetic Practices and Cultural Change: Challenging Environmental Neuroticism
Bryan E. Bannon
8. The Activity of Human Passivity and the Process of Nature: Renaud Barbaras’ “Eco-Phenomenology” vis-à-vis the Anthropocene Paradox
Petr Prášek
Section 3. Place and Cosmos
9. A 'Taste for the Infinite': Passivity as a Lens to Interpret Place, Transcendence, and the Anthropocene
Forrest Clingerman
10. The Passivity of Awe as a Way to a Yet-To-Be-Disclosed-Place
Martin Mølholm
11. The Eco-Phenomenology of Dreaming: Flesh, Relation, and Perception Beyond the Human
Michael T. Heneise
12. The Earth is the Essence of All Beings: Eco-Phenomenology in the Upaniṣads
Meera Baindur
Section 4. Responsible Relating
13. The Passivity of Time Opens the Space for Eco-Political Activity
Edvard Lia
14. How Music Listening May Nurture Our Receptivity and Resonance with Nature
Charlotte Lindvang
15. The Sense of Wonder as Key to Eco-Bildung
Finn Thorbjørn Hansen
16. Phenomenology of Friendship in a Common World
Marina Garcés
Section 5. Vegetal and Animal Life
17. Empathy with Plants
Hayden Kee
18. Practicing Passivity: Through Mystical and Vegetal Being
Simone Kotva
19. A Phenomenology of Sexual Difference and Plant Life
Michael Marder
20. Approximate Relations: Chimpanzee Paintings and the Performance of the Human
Louise Green
21. Eco-Phenomenology and Passivity in Anna Barbauld's "The Caterpillar" and John Clare's "The Mouse's Nest"
Lisa Vargo
Section 6. Literary Intersections
22. Wise Passiveness: Responding to Nature with Wordsworth and Merleau-Ponty
Cassandra Falke
23. In the Mood for Nature with Heidegger and Thoreau
Robert A. Winkler
24. The Flesh of a Drowned World: Climate Trauma and Porous Living in J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World
Zlatan Flipovic
25. Moving Water: Aquatic Experience in Emmi Itäranta's Novel Memory of Water
Alice Sundman
26. Poetry and the Forgotten Future: Towards a New Onto-Phenomenology of Poetic Work
Patryk Szaj
Section 7. Eco-Phenomenology in Dialogue
27. Enacting an Ontological Shift: Individuation and Passivity in Enactivism and Eco-Phenomenology
Maia Vige Helle
28. Making Sense of "Description from Within": An Ontological Perspective
Svein Anders Noer Lie
29. Mindfulness and Eco-Phenomenology: Similarities, Divergences and Critical Potentials
Jonas Jakobsen and Ida Solhaug
30. Tired Nature, Tired of Nature: Eco-Phenomenology of Fatigue and Melancholy
Shannon Hayes and Kaja Jenssen Rathe
Index
Biography
Michael T. Heneise is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. His work brings phenomenological and anthropological approaches to dreams, healing, and human–more-than-human relations in Highland Asia and the Arctic. He is President and co-founder of the Highland Institute, an independent research centre in Northeast India, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of HIMALAYA: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.
Cassandra Falke is Professor of English Literature and leader of the Interdisciplinary Phenomenology group at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. She has written two monographs and 50 articles and chapters, and has co/edited five collections. Her work has received support from Fulbright, the NEH, the NOS-HS, and Cornell University.
Espen Dahl is Professor of Systematic Theology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. He writes on phenomenological approaches to religious experience, holiness, aesthetics, evil, nature, and the body. His most recent book is Incarnation, Pain, Theology: A Phenomenology of the Body (2024).
Alice Sundman holds a PhD in English Literature from Stockholm University. Her current research focuses on literary imaginings of water in climate-changed future worlds. Her monograph Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place (Routledge 2022) explores the creation and presentation of Toni Morrison’s literary places.
Edvard Lia is a PhD fellow at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, working on a dissertation titled The Phenomenon of Breath: An Existential Interpretation of Respiratory Facts with Hans Jonas as the primary philosophical interlocutor. His other general research interests include the phenomenological tradition, Hegel’s philosophy, and eco-Marxism.
