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Demonstrates the fertility of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy for intergenerational justice and climate ethics.
In the face of widespread environmental and social destabilization and growing uncertainty about the future of humanity, this collection of essays brings the philosophical tradition of phenomenology to the question of relations between generations to examine our ethical, political, and environmental obligations to future people. Emphasizing phenomenology's rich reflections on the role of time in the constitution of the social-historical world and its relation to the environment, the essays interweave the central themes of mortality, natality, generativity, and amor mundi to build vital bridges between new developments in both eco- and critical phenomenology and important work in intergenerational ethics. Together, the chapters reevaluate the traditional scope and foundational concepts of environmental ethics and social justice, paving the way for a revised understanding of intergenerational responsibilities, culminating in the key insight that future people are of us. The result is an invaluable conceptual toolkit for phenomenologists, ethicists, theorists, students, and activists concerned with environmental justice and climate ethics.
"The range of positions, arguments, and thinkers covered in Phenomenology of Future Generations is impressive and, in many instances, brings to attention a number of important thinkers in the wider field of intergenerational justice, Levinas here primarily among them. Given that the field of intergenerational justice is mainly dominated by non-Continental references and traditions, this volume will open the door to further intersections among these vantage points."—Nicolas De Warren, author of German Philosophy and the First World War
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Phenomenology and Future Generations?
Matthias Fritsch, Ferdinando G. Menga, and Rebecca van der Post
Section 1. Generativity: The Future Is of Us and in Us
1. Generativity and Ethics: A Phenomenological Approach
Mario Vergani
2. Responding to the Claims of Those Who Shall Come After Us
Bernhard Waldenfels
3. Generativity, Generations, and Generative Intergenerational Solidarity: Untimely Reflections on the Way We Live After One Another, With One Another, and For One Another, in Its Unforeseeable Historicity
Burkhard Liebsch
Section 2. The Politics of Human Generations
4. Absences that Matter: Phenomenological Insights into (the Predicaments of ) Intergenerational Justice
Ferdinando G. Menga
5. How Can We Take Claims of Future Generations Seriously? Combining Different Perspectives in Our Action
Eva Buddeberg
6. Jonasian Grounding of Future-Oriented Responsibility and the Idea of the Human
Hiroshi Abe
7. "The Race of the Poor": Intergenerational Lessons from Anarchist Eugenics
Anne O'Byrne
Section 3. Amor Mundi in Presentist Modernity
8. Critical Theory, Natal Alienation, Future People
Matthias Fritsch
9. In Our Element
Rebecca van der Post
10. From Love of World to Love of Earth: Taking Responsibility for the Future of the Planet
Kelly Oliver
Contributors
Index