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Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World Paperback – May 15, 2019
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As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century.
Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia―love of life―for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene.
With the current and coming generations, "Generation Symbiocene," Albrecht sees reason for optimism. The battle between the forces of destruction and the forces of creation will be won by Generation Symbiocene, and Earth Emotions presents an ethical and emotional odyssey for that victory.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCornell University Press
- Publication dateMay 15, 2019
- Reading age18 years and up
- Dimensions6 x 0.58 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101501715224
- ISBN-13978-1501715228
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Albrecht offers a framework within which to understand and acknowledge the dissociation of humans from the living world. With a new language and means of expression, a wider array of stories from diverse voices can hopefully be heard.
― The IndependentIn Earth Emotions, Albrecht seeks to provide a new lexicon of emotional terms. The purpose of these terms is twofold: first, to allow people make better sense of themselves and of their relationship with the planet; second, to encourage development of a more meaningful and optimistic outlook toward the planet.
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Earth Emotions is thorough, composed, and historically illuminative. Grounded and powerful in its message, this book helps explain in an accessible way the history of Earth emotion neologisms and the relationships of land and psyche.
-- Nick Stanger, Washington UniversityAbout the Author
Glenn A. Albrecht is an Australian environmental philosopher. He established the now widely used and accepted concept of solastalgia, or the lived experience of negative environmental change. He retired from Murdoch University in 2014 as a Professor of Sustainability, and he is now an Honorary Associate in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney.
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- Publisher : Cornell University Press (May 15, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1501715224
- ISBN-13 : 978-1501715228
- Reading age : 18 years and up
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.58 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #388,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #455 in Human Geography (Books)
- #947 in Environmental Science (Books)
- #978 in Environmentalism
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2022Australian polymath Glenn Albrecht has produced a stunning book where his earthly experience is beautifully interwoven with his terra-philosophy. The description of the vast range of earth emotions is the best I have seen. The explanations are very clear and I love his independent viewpoint - the mantle of James Lovelock would sit well on his shoulders (if both would agree). Here are messages and creeds for the near-, mid- and far-futures. Those born today might well have this book as an earth bible as they reach 2100 and rejoice in mere survival through the greatest set of challenges to the human race since the ice ages. I am so enjoying rereading many chapters. Highly recommended, do not miss the final chapter.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2022...the earth nor emotions work that way.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2023A grab-bag of new age nonsense, including a long exposition on the film "Avatar", which has been roundly criticized by indigenous groups world wide as cultural appropriation, along with some very questionable use of cherry-picked aspects of Hegelian philosophy that leaves out some of the inconvenient parts of Hegel's dialectic, e.g. ‘labor of the negative’, which doesn't fit into Albrecht's central thesis. People looking for something to easy to ease their justified anxieties about the future of hte planet will find some solace here, but a serious work of philosophy it is not.
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Amazon KundeReviewed in Germany on October 21, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr inspirierend
Da in englischer Sprache, viele Übersetzer bemüht - liegt an meiner mangelnden Sprachkenntnisse in diesem Bereich
Absolut empfehlenswert- Mühe lohnt sich 💪🏼
- elasmobranchReviewed in India on August 9, 2023
2.0 out of 5 stars Font too small
The font size of such an important book is too small for those with visual problems.
- Merrilee BakerReviewed in Australia on July 22, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing and healing
I had a broad idea of the concepts and need for the new words Glenn introduces and ordered immediately I heard about it but didn't pick up to read until yesterday. Three hours on the train and I was taken on a journey by Glenn that was so evident in the landscape the train sped by. Reflections from my life led me to head-writing my own sumbiography. I am so grateful for the deepening of my knowledge behind solastalgia and how to frame what is happening with frightening speed to our planet right now. I look forward to the rest of the book.
One person found this helpfulReport - luca michaReviewed in Germany on October 16, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars Very important work
We must talk about the emotional effect of climate change, this book provides words and methods for this very important talk.
- SeanReviewed in Germany on April 12, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
Ecophilosophy that combines ecolinguistics and storytelling