Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, and the Environment The Experience of
A significant step in the evolution of ecopsychology has been the field’s growing awareness of its long-standing affinity with phenomenology. Now, at a time when the natural world is viewed as somewhere between threatening, threatened, and invisible, an e
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Douglas A. Vakoch • Fernando Castrillón Editors
Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, and the Environment The Experience of Nature
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Editors Douglas A. Vakoch SETI Institute, Center for SETI Research California Institute of Integral Studies Mountain View USA
Fernando Castrillón Department of Community Mental Health California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco USA
ISBN 978-1-4614-9618-2 ISBN 978-1-4614-9619-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-9619-9 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013958152 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
A mi madre, por la vida. A mi padre, por la palabra. ~Fernando Castrillón
Foreword The Experience of Nature: Phenomenologies of the Earth
On Wild Ethics Phenomenology, as a style of refection and a practice of life, invites us to drop beneath our accepted abstractions (to suspend our inherited notions and theoretical conceptions) in order to pay close attention to our directly felt experience of things. It asks us to notice the way that the surrounding world and its manifold constituents spontaneously disclose themselves to our most immediate awareness. Phenomenology invites us to trade in our concepts for fresh percept
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