Philosophy and the Climate Crisis: How the Past, Williston..

Taylor & Francis

Philosophy and the Climate CrisisHow the Past Can Save the Present\nAuthor(s): Byron Williston\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367506797, 978-0367506797\nSynopsis\nThis book explores how the history of philosophy can orient us to the new reality brought on by the climate crisis.\n\nIf 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 eventswar, occupation, exile, scientific revolution and political revolutioninspired the philosophers to remake the whole world in thought, to construct a metaphysics. Williston distills a key intellectual innovation from each metaphysical system:\n\n That political power must be constrained by knowledge of the climate system (Plato)\n\n That ethical and political reasoning must be infor.