Attunement and the Sense of Significance in Dianthropocene Life
Reactualizing K.E. Løgstrup's Philosophy of Sensation in a Time of Ecological Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21311577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steen Hjul Lybke (0009-0005-1663-8951, Centre for Science and Faith, Department of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-29 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialog (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2033 • E-ISSN: 1540-6385 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dial.12874 |
| OpenAlex | W4407384022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
The concept of the Anthropocene rightly points to the damaging effects of human agency on ecosystems and the climate. In this article, I argue that the agency of nature nonetheless continues to play a central role on the human sense of significance. For this purpose, I introduce and discuss the Danish philosopher‐theologian K.E. Løgstrup's concept of attunement and show how attunement constitutes a relationship between humans and nature through which a sense of fellowship, rather than hostility, springs. This section is divided into two parts. The first part outlines the elementary features to Løgstrup's argument in his philosophy of sensation, while the second part elaborates on his concept of attunement. It is argued that Løgstrup's philosophy of sensation and attunement describes what I call sovereign conditions of life that are continuously at work in midst of the Anthropocene. Subsequently, two empirical cases are applied to illustrate how attunement is operative in experiences of agency in nature. In conclusion, I propose the concept of the Dianthropocene as a tool for rediscovering the mutual ‘throughput’ circulations between human and more‐than‐human agency
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Anthropocene · Argument (complex analysis) · Attunement · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Sense of agency · Sociology · Chemistry · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
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Impact of Humans on the Flux of Terrestrial Sediment to the Global Coastal Ocean
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Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity
Complex dynamics of climate emotions among environmentally active Finnish and American young people
The Anthropocene
The Anthropocene event in social theory
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |