Sarah E Fredericks

Environmental Guilt and Shame

Signals of Individual and Collective Responsibility and the Need for Ritual Responses

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study shows that many people in the US feel guilt about their everyday life. It explores many ethical questions including whether individuals or collectives are the guilty or shameful parties, whether agents should have these feelings, whether people should induce guilt or shame in others, and how people can respond to such feelings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780198842699
• ISBN-10: 0198842694
• Artikelnr.: 61934246

Autorenporträt

Sarah E. Fredericks is Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is the author of Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes (Routledge, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Tables
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Evidence of Environmental Guilt and Shame
* 3: Typology of Guilt and Shame
* 4: Philosophical Arguments for Individuals, Memberships, and
Collectives in States of Guilt or Shame
* 5: Environmental Guilt and Shame
* 6: Critics of Emotions and Collectives
* 7: Ethics of Environmental Guilt and Shame
* 8: The Ethics of Inducing and Responding to Guilt and Shame
* 9: Ritual Responses to Environmental Guilt and Shame
* Epilogue: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Lessons from Studying
Environmental Guilt and Shame
* Works Cited