Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era

Lenart Škof is professor of philosophy and religious studies and is among the leading international scholars in the field of respiratory-elemental thinking. His main research interests lie in ethics, philosophical theology, comparative religion with intercultural philosophy, and feminist philosophy. His most recent books include God in Post-Christianity: An Elemental Philosophical Theology (SUNY Press, 2024), Antigone’s Sisters: On the Matrix of Love (SUNY Press, 2021), Atmospheres of Breathing, ed. by L. Škof and P. Berndtson (SUNY Press, 2018), Ethik des Atems (Freiburg: Herder/Karl Alber, 2017) and Breath of Proximity: Intersubjectivity, Ethics, and Peace (Springer, 2015).Sashinungla is professor of philosophy at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Her main research interests are ethics, feminist philosophy, environmental philosophy, and indigenous philosophy. Her books include Tradition and Modernity: Essays on Women of India (coedited; Suryodaya Books, 2015), Environment Preservation: A Philosophical Critique (Decent Books, 2005), and Ethics and Culture: Some Indian Reflections (co-edited; Decent Books, 2010). Her current research projects focus on tribal philosophy, elemental and embodied cross-cultural philosophy of nature, and social and political ethics.Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir is professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland and former Erkko professor at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She is an internationally known Nietzsche-scholar and a leading scholar in feminist philosophy with a special emphasis on philosophy of embodiment, nature and the environment. Among her recent publications are Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning (Routledge 2024, ed. with D. Schoeller and G. Walkerden) and Methodological Reflections on Women´s Contribution and Influence in the History of Philosophy (Springer 2020, ed. with R. Hagengruber).

• Chapter 1.Aboriginal Indian Elemental Ontology.- Chapter 2.Closing the Subject-Object Rift Through Aboriginal Australian Elemental and Embodied Philosophy.- Chapter 3.Elements of Slovenian Indigenous Religion.- Chapter 4. The Glacier and Me – Understanding the Human Being as Embodied and Elemental.- Chapter 5.The Life in Black Lives Matter.- Chapter 6.The Gravity of Our Situation: On Acrophobia and Eco-Paralysis.- Chapter 7. Vegetal Environmental Pedagogy.- Chapter 8.Environmental Responsiveness in Conceptual Thinking.- Chapter 9.Elements of Embodied Critical Thinking.- Chapter 10.Methodologies of Embodied-Elemental Thinking in Ethics of Nature.