Fittingness and Environmental Ethics

Michael S. Northcott is Professor Emeritus of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh and Guest Professor at the Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies at Universitas Gadjah Mada Graduate School in Yogyakarta (Indonesia). He is also Guest Professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium).Steven C. van den Heuvel is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium).

• List of FiguresList of Contribuotrs Acknowledgements IntroductionMichael S. Northcott and Steven C. van den HeuvelPart I Metaphysics and Aesthetics1 Fittingness and Other-Regarding Attitudes in Environmental AestheticsEmily Brady2 Commonage Consciousness and Fitting in with the Earth: John Moriarty and Deep EcologyNora Ward3 On the Ethics and Metaphysics of Fittingness, Affordances and ProvidenceMichael Bauwens4 Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Perspectives from Chinese Religion and PhilosophyJunSoo ParkPart II Theological Perspectives on Fittingness5 The Ontological Turn, Religious Tradition, and Human Cosmological FittingnessMichael S. Northcott6 Fittingness and the Spiritual-Religious Nature of EnvironmentalismJohan de Tavernier7 Fittingness as Attunement? Being Ecological with Timothy Morton and Hans Urs von BalthasarYves de Maeseneer8 Anselm on Fittingness: Various Concepts of Fittingness in the Cur Deus homoRostislav TkachenkoPart III Practical Applications9 Fittingness as a Dynamic of Social Interaction: Implications for Embedding Ecological Concerns in Community Life and PracticeJack Barentsen10 When ‘Fitting in’ means to ‘Care’: Proposing a Form-of-Life for Environmental CareEmilio di Somma11 Representation as Isolation: The Unfittingness of WasteGregory Jensen12 The Challenge and Promise of Queer Ecology for Understanding ‘Fittingness’: A Theological EngagementSteven C. van den HeuvelIndex