Earth Emotions

New Words for a New World

Bibliographic Data

ID19977487
AuthorsGlenn Albrecht (corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages256
Publication date2019-05-15
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueEarth Emotions (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/cornell/9781501715228.001.0001
OpenAlexW4243930824
Open LibraryOL27762441M
ISBN9781501715228
LanguageEN
Citations received51

'Earth Emotions' is an invitation to the reader to participate in the emergent global drama between the emotionally charged forces of creation and destruction. Both sets of emotions are needed for the survival and the flourishing of the species, however, we live in an epoch where the forces of destruction are overwhelming positive or creative emotions. The name for this period of human dominance is the 'Anthropocene'. The book promotes an antidote to the Anthropocene in the form of the 'Symbiocene', a future era where positive earth emotions will flourish. Through these two master concepts, both types of emotions are systematically examined in the context of nature and life. Starting with a recently defined negative earth emotion, 'solastalgia', the reader is taken on a psycho-terratic (psyche-earth) journey through all of the earth emotions and feelings in use in the public and academic literature. The book culminates in the affirmation of positive emotional relationships to the Earth for current and future generations. As a relentlessly optimistic manifesto for living in the future, this book addresses the emotional, cultural, ethical, political, spiritual and practical aspects of positive earth emotions and the defeat of those that are destructive of people and the planet

Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Archaeology · Art · Catharsis · Context (archaeology) · Drama · Earth (classical element) · Environmental ethics · Feeling · Flourishing · Literature · Political science · Politics · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Emotions · Environmentalism · Health aspects · Human Ecology · Nature

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