{"product_id":"philosophy-and-the-climate-crisis-byron-williston-9780367506797","title":"Philosophy and the Climate Crisis: How the Past Can Save the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores how the history of philosophy can orient us to the new reality brought on by the climate crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf we understand the climate crisis as a deeply existential one, it can help to examine the way past philosophers responded to similar crises in their times. This book explores five past crises, each involving a unique form of collective trauma. These events--war, occupation, exile, scientific revolution and political revolution--inspired the philosophers to remake the whole world in thought, to construct a metaphysics. Williston distills a key intellectual innovation from each metaphysical system: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- That political power must be constrained by knowledge of the climate system (Plato)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- That ethical and political reasoning must be informed by care or love of the ecological whole (Augustine)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- That we must enhance the design of the technosphere (Descartes)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- That we must conceive the Earth as an internally complex system (Spinoza)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- And that we must grant rights to anyone or anything--ultimately the Earth system itself--whose vital interests are threatened by the effects of climate change (Hegel).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilosophy and the Climate Crisis will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental philosophy and ethics and the environmental humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Byron Williston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367506793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367506797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/12\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2021 pg. 160","brand":"Byron Williston","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136013676799,"sku":"9780367506797","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a199c4d-7e1f-4675-be54-406b314bf826.jpg?v=1770159935","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/philosophy-and-the-climate-crisis-byron-williston-9780367506797","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}