Environmental guilt and shame signals of individual and collective responsibility and the need for ritual responses / Sarah E. Fredericks.
| Author/creator | Fredericks, Sarah E. |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021. |
| Description | x, 225 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- Evidence of environmental guilt and shame -- Typology of guilt and shame -- Philosophical arguments for individuals, memberships, and collectives in states of guilt or shame -- Environmental guilt and shame -- Responding to critics of emotions and collectives -- Ethics of environmental guilt and shame -- The ethics of inducing and responding to guilt and shame -- Ritual responses to environmental guilt and shame -- Epilogue. Looking back, looking forward : lessons from studying environmental guilt and shame. |
| Abstract | "Bloggers confessing that they waste food, non-governmental organizations naming corporations selling unsustainably harvested seafood, and veterans apologizing to Native Americans at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation for environmental and social devastation caused by the United States government all signal the existence of action-oriented guilt and identity-oriented shame about participation in environmental degradation. Environmental Guilt and Shamedemonstrates that these moral emotions are common among environmentally friendly segments of the United States but have received little attention from environmental ethicists though they can catalyze or hinder environmental action. Concern about environmental guilt and shame among "everyday environmentalists"reveals the practical, emotional, ethical, and existential issues raised by environmental guilt and shame and ethical insights about guilt, shame, responsibility, agency, and identity. A typology of guilt and shame enables the development and evaluation of these ethical insights.Environmental Guilt and Shame makes three major claims: first, individuals and collectives, including the diffuse collectives that cause climate change, can have identity, agency, and responsibility and thus guilt and shame. Second, some agents, including collectives, should feel guilt and/or shame for environmental degradation if they hold environmental values and think that their actions shape and reveal their identity. Third, a number of conditions are required to conceptually,existentially, and practically deal with guilt and shame's effects on agents. These conditions can be developed and maintained through rituals. Existing rituals need more development to fully deal with individual and collective guilt and shame as well as the anthropogenic environmental degradation that may sparkthem."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-215) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Biographical note | Sarah E. Fredericks is Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020951908 |
| ISBN | 9780198842699 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0198842694 hardcover |
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