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Title
Hermeneutics of human-animal relations in the wake of rewilding : the ethical guide to ecological discomforts / Mateusz Tokarski.
ISBN
9783030189716 (electronic book)
3030189716 (electronic book)
9783030189709
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-18
Call Number
BT746 .T65 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
231.7
Summary
In consequence of significant social, political, economic, and demographic changes several wildlife species are currently growing in numbers and recolonizing Europe. While this is rightly hailed as a success of the environmental movement, the return of wildlife brings its own issues. As the animals arrive in the places we inhabit, we are learning anew that life with wild nature is not easy, especially when the accumulated cultural knowledge and experience pertaining to such coexistence have been all but lost. This book provides a hermeneutic study of the ways we come to understand the troubling impacts of wildlife by exploring and critically discussing the meanings of 'ecological discomforts'. Thus, it begins the work of rebuilding the culture of coexistence. The cases presented in this book range from crocodile attacks to mice infestations, and their analysis consequently builds up an ethics that sees wildlife as active participants in the shaping of human moral and existential reality. This book is of interest not only to environmental philosophers, who will find here an original contribution to the established ethical discussions, but also to wildlife managers, and even to those members of the public who themselves struggle to make sense of encounters with their new wild neighbors.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 19, 2019).
Series
International Library of Enviromental, Agriculture and food ethics ; v. 30.
Chapter 1. Introduction: the Return of Wildlife
Chapter 2. Ecological Discomforts in Environmental Thought
Chapter 3. Interests, Costs, Benefits, and the Social Complexity of Discomforts
Chapter 4. Wildness and the Preconditions for Meaningfulness of Nature
Chapter 5. Discomforting Encounters with Nature as Moral Experiences
Chapter 6. Individual Sacrifices and the Flourishing of Ecosystems
Chapter 7. Towards a Wilder Community
Chapter 8. Practicing Coexistence
Chapter 9. Summary and General Conclusions.
