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dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Dan
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-05T13:42:50Z
dc.date.available2022-12-05T13:42:50Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59827
dc.description.abstractThis chapter begins with the problem of ‘climate anxiety’, a psychological and cultural response to collapsing ecological systems marked by depression, trauma and helplessness. While a reasonable response to an existential threat, climate anxiety impedes our capacity to act where it leads to apathy, indecision or fatalism. The paper considers Jem Bendell’s argument that accepting and ‘grieving’ for inevitable civilisational collapse is a precondition to clear-sighted adaptation. This response is insufficient for the problem of motivation necessary for the capacity to act. It considers Martha Nussbaum’s 2018 claim that fear hinders reciprocity, amplifies infantile narcissism and endangers democracy. While salient, developing a countervailing ‘capacity for concern’ requires not merely a therapeutic relationship or the uncritical restitution of faltering liberal public institutions. Via Spinoza, an effective capacity to act against fear is conceived as interrelational and affective, founded on cooperation, friendship and the cultivation of causal knowledge. A common autonomy, one not merely of individual choice or identitarian self-expression.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movementsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justiceen_US
dc.subject.otherAutonomy, philospohy, politics, language, Pharmacology, climateen_US
dc.titleChapter 9 Climate anxiety, fatalism and the capacity to acten_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/ 9781003331780-13en_US
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oapen.relation.isPartOfBook8122fc20-b72b-438a-b044-6687c3571f06en_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBy46165047-dd95-4cd7-ab7c-b4a4ecf21c81en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032364070en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032364094en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages16en_US


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