The Role of Awe in Environmental Ethics

McShane, Katie

doi:10.1111/jaac.12595

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“…These are closely connected with feelings of pleasure and sometimes also with pride, if the person feels somehow part of the developments which are deemed good (see section Pleasure, Joy, Pride below). In addition, there are the feelings of amazement, awe, and wonder in people's experiences of environments, which have received much attention in fields such as environmental aesthetics, environmental education, and environmental psychology (see e.g., Houser, 2014, Chapter 3;McShane, 2018;Zhao et al, 2018), but this is not the place to discuss these further.…”

Section: Amazement Surprise Disappointment Confusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a Taxonomy of Climate Emotions

Pihkala

2022

Front. Clim.

152

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There is a growing evidence that emotions shape people's reactions to the climate crisis in profound but complex ways. Climate emotions are related to resilience, climate action, and psychological well-being and health. However, there is currently a lack of research about the array of various climate emotions. There is also a need for more integration with general research about emotions. This article conducts a preliminary exploration of the taxonomy of climate emotions, based on literature reviews and philosophical discussion. The term emotion is used here in a broad sense, as is common in climate emotion research. Because of the urgency of the climate crisis and the lack of previous research, this kind of exploration is aimed to be helpful for both practical climate work and for future research which would include more systematic reviews of the topic. Research items which discuss at least five different climate emotions, based on empirical observations, are used as major sources and a table about them is provided. Climate emotions are discussed on the basis of interdisciplinary research. The article considers many aspects of the phenomena of climate anxiety and climate grief.

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Section: Amazement Surprise Disappointment Confusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a Taxonomy of Climate Emotions

Pihkala

2022

Front. Clim.

152

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“…Aesthetic disvalue is commonly articulated through the category of ‘ugliness’ (Eco, 2011; Moore, 1998; Saito, 1998a). There has been less attention to disvalue in both artistic and environmental aesthetics (Brady, 2012; Saito, 1998b; Sepänmaa, 1986), however there has been more attention to aesthetic value categories which involve a mixture of pleasure and displeasure, such as tragedy, the sublime and neighbouring categories including awe and wonder (Brady, 2013; Feagin, 1983; Hepburn, 1984; McShane, 2018; Paden, 2015a; Shapshay, 2013).…”

Section: Aesthetics Nature and Valuementioning

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Environmental aesthetics: A synthetic review

Brady

Prior

2020

People and Nature

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Environmental aesthetics has emerged in the last 50 years from the philosophical fields of aesthetics and environmental philosophy. The questions and issues which shape this subfield have been drawn principally from the Western philosophical tradition. Other disciplinary perspectives have also shaped environmental aesthetics, including landscape architecture, human geography, restoration ecology and empirical studies on landscape preferences in developmental and environmental psychology. This review and synthesis mainly addresses the theoretical approaches and concepts that provide a framework to the key debates in the field, but also considers, to some extent, how empirical approaches have shaped recent developments, and how conceptual issues arise with respect to empirical cases. We note that our expertize and, thus, the expertize of this review, is primarily confined to UK, European and North American scholarship. Abstract 1. The main aim of the article is to provide up-to-date knowledge of environmental aesthetics for an interdisciplinary audience, and to signal the importance of research in this area for studying people-nature relationships. 2. Environmental aesthetics has emerged in the last 50 years from the philosophical fields of aesthetics and environmental philosophy. Other disciplinary perspectives have also shaped environmental aesthetics, including landscape architecture, human geography, restoration ecology and empirical studies on landscape preferences in developmental and environmental psychology.3. This review and synthesis mainly addresses the theoretical approaches and concepts that provide a framework to the key debates in the field, but also considers how empirical approaches have shaped recent developments, and how conceptual issues arise with respect to empirical cases. 4. We outline the background and context of environmental aesthetics, its key concepts, and provide a critical review of contemporary theories in the field. We then consider how aesthetics features in issues pertaining to the conservation, preservation, and restoration of nature.5. Finally, we identify some new directions for environmental aesthetics scholarship that can productively contribute to ongoing debates regarding various relationships between people and nature.

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“…While McShane (2018) observes some similarities between awe and the sublime, she claims that the psychological conceptualization of awe lacks some features that some theorists have attributed to the sublime (p. 474). Unfortunately, she lists aspects that are disputed among rival theories of the sublime: fear or terror (Burke), awareness of the powers of reason (Kant), and “metaphysical presuppositions beyond what is necessary in perception” (McShane, 2018, p. 474). These controversial features are not essential to the conceptualization of the sublime.…”

Section: Similarities Between the Sublime And Awementioning

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Intersections Between Awe and the Sublime: A Preliminary Empirical Study

Clewis

Yaden

Chirico

2021

Empirical Studies of the Arts

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This empirical study examines how philosophical work on the sublime relates to contemporary psychological work on awe. We operationalized several aspects of the sublime drawing from prominent philosophical theories and analyzed them in relation to three different measures of awe: the modified Differential Emotions Scale (mDES), the awe sub-scale of the Dispositional Positive Emotion Scale (DPES), and the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S). We carried out an Exploratory Factor Analysis on our items on the sublime. We found high correlations between these items and the measures of awe, especially with the self-loss and connectedness dimensions of the AWE-S. By operationalizing aspects of the sublime drawn from influential philosophical theories and comparing them with psychological measures of awe, we find a large degree of overlap between awe and the sublime, suggesting that these two literatures could inform one another.

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The Role of Awe in Environmental Ethics

Cited by 18 publications

References 69 publications

Toward a Taxonomy of Climate Emotions

Toward a Taxonomy of Climate Emotions

Environmental aesthetics: A synthetic review

Intersections Between Awe and the Sublime: A Preliminary Empirical Study

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