Lucy Weir announces new book
Dr Lucy Weir, an ecological philosopher who has published extensively in journals and books primarily on climate change and the ecological emergency, social justice and forced migration, is delighted to announce the publication of a new work which she edited and contributed to.
Lucy, from the Highlands of Scotland, now lives in Kilworth. She has published two monographs, ‘Love is Green: compassion as realisation in the ecological emergency’ which tackles big philosophical themes like free will, how we got to our current impasse and what we can do about it.
Her second book is ‘Yoga for Now: embodied philosophy for the ecological emergency’ which follows up the theme of how we can tackle the climate and ecological emergency in a way that is manageable and personal but which will have a community and society-wide impact.
This third book which is a collaboration with a number of distinguished philosophers is an extension of these two ideas: how can we shift the way we see what is going on so we can be clearer about the causes of the emergency? And how can we act in a way that is both effective and allows us to maintain our own sanity, wisdom and impetus, in the face of what look to be overwhelming odds.
“I’m thrilled with the publication under Springer and Palgrave Macmillan’s inaugural cross-imprint Sustainable Development Goals Series of Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency: An Exploration of Urgent Matters.
This book considers that philosophy is as practical as plumbing. In seeking to live wisely, which is what philosophy offers (to love wisdom is to want to know how to live well), we approach the ecological emergency we are in as also being in us. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution do not just affect the world outside. They affect our social, political and personal lives which in their turn have created the external fragmentation that critically and urgently demands our attention.
With its emphasis on philosophy as practice, this book is a valuable contribution to the field of environmental philosophy but it also offers something to anyone willing to think critically about our current predicament.
The central argument of the book is that philosophy is both a way of seeing what is going on, and a practice of living wisely when we are clearer about how we see.
Editing and contributing to this collection has been a great privilege. Many of the contributors are experts in their fields and at the cutting edge of current social, scientific and philosophical research.