Michel Bourban, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Twente, has published a new paper “Eco-Anxiety: A Philosophical Approach” in the collected volume Anxiety Culture: The New Global State of Human Affairs published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Abstract:
Global environmental changes such as anthropogenic mass extinction, climate change, and ozone depletion give rise to a specific form of anxiety: “eco-anxiety.” This chapter draws the contours of the notion of eco-anxiety and suggests possible remedies to it. The objective is to identify elements of anxiety culture without pretending to give definitive answers or trying to excessively restrict the understanding of anxiety. This is a contribution to an emergent research agenda on anxiety conceived as a new global state of human affairs.
