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| The Personal and the Planetary: Buddhism, Climate Change, and Anthropocene Time | ||
| 作者 | Verchery, Lina (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Religions |
| 卷期 | v.14 n.10 |
| 出版日期 | 2023.10 |
| 頁次 | 13 |
| 出版者 | MDIP |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.mdpi.com/ |
| 出版地 | Basel, Switzerland [巴塞爾, 瑞士] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 1. Religions 2023, 14(10), 1313. 2. The Subtitle of the Journal: The Question of Buddhist Environmentalism. 3. Author Affiliation: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhism; climate change; temporality; Anthropocene; Lotus Sūtra; Bodhicaryāvatāra; Śāntideva; Dipesh Chakrabarty |
| 摘要 | Dipesh Chakrabarty describes the problem of climate change as in part one of temporal incommensurability. For most of human history, we have enjoyed the primacy of anthropocentric “world-historical” time. But as climate change becomes an increasingly dominant preoccupation in our daily lives, we experience a rupture in everyday world-historical time and the incursion of a new timescale: the inconceivably vast and impersonal scale of “planetary-geologic” time. The incommensurability between the personal scale of human time and the vast planetary scale of climate change has produced an affective crisis, confronting us with the very limits of our imaginative capacity. In this essay, I argue that although the specifics of climate change may be new, human imaginative engagement with deep time is not. Animated by the conviction that Buddhist literature and thought contain robust theoretical and conceptual ideas that can enrich philosophical and ethical thinking, I bring select Buddhist concepts to bear on the problem of temporal incommensurability. Rather than suggest any general “Buddhist” way of thinking about time, I argue that Buddhist sources can offer new conceptual points of entry into the problem of temporal incommensurability itself, specifically addressing how we might differently conceptualize the relationship between the personal and the planetary in order to address the affective crisis identified by Chakrabarty. |
| 目次 | Abstract 1 Keywords 1 1. Introduction 1 2. The Problem of Two Presents 2 3. Resisting the Ease of Infinity 4 4. Bringing the Outside in 6 5. The View from Nowhere 8 6. Conclusion: How We Experience the Night 10 Funding 12 Conflicts of Interest 12 Notes 12 References 12 |
| ISSN | 20771444 (E) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel14101313 |
| 點閱次數 | 30 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.05.24 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.05.29 |
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