Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology

Michael T. Heneise is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. His work brings phenomenological and anthropological approaches to dreams, healing, and human–more-than-human relations in Highland Asia and the Arctic. He is President and co-founder of the Highland Institute, an independent research centre in Northeast India, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of HIMALAYA: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.Cassandra Falke is Professor of English Literature and leader of the Interdisciplinary Phenomenology group at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. She has written two monographs and 50 articles and chapters, and has co/edited five collections. Her work has received support from Fulbright, the NEH, the NOS-HS, and Cornell University.Espen Dahl is Professor of Systematic Theology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. He writes on phenomenological approaches to religious experience, holiness, aesthetics, evil, nature, and the body. His most recent book is Incarnation, Pain, Theology: A Phenomenology of the Body (2024).Alice Sundman holds a PhD in English Literature from Stockholm University. Her current research focuses on literary imaginings of water in climate-changed future worlds. Her monograph Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place (Routledge 2022) explores the creation and presentation of Toni Morrison’s literary places.Edvard Lia is a PhD fellow at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, working on a dissertation titled The Phenomenon of Breath: An Existential Interpretation of Respiratory Facts with Hans Jonas as the primary philosophical interlocutor. His other general research interests include the phenomenological tradition, Hegel’s philosophy, and eco-Marxism.

• 1. Introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology, Section 1. Given Nature, 2. Transcending the Object Horizon: Nature as Given and Saturated Phenomenon,3. Eco-Phenomenology and the Theological Turn? Passivity, Activity, and Traumatic Being, 4. Birth, Nature, and Repetition: Arendt and Beyond, 5. The Mirror-Play of Being Used and Needed: Rereading (Ge-)brauchen in Heidegger for Eco-Phenomenology, Section 2. Passivity and Perception, 6. Earth Un-Earthed: Total Solar Eclipses as Sur-Réflexion on the Earthborne Topology of Flesh, with Remarks on Transcendental Geology, 7. Aesthetic Practices and Cultural Change: Challenging Environmental Neuroticism, 8. The Activity of Human Passivity and the Process of Nature: Renaud Barbaras’ “Eco-Phenomenology” vis-à-vis the Anthropocene Paradox, Section 3. Place and Cosmos, 9. A "Taste for the Infinite": Passivity as a Lens to Interpret Place, Transcendence, and the Anthropocene, 10. The Passivity of Awe as a Way to a Yet-To-Be-Disclosed-Place, 11. The Eco-Phenomenology of Dreaming: Flesh, Relation, and Perception Beyond the Human, 12. The Earth is the Essence of All Beings: Ecophenomenology in the Upaniṣads, Section 4. Responsible Relating, 13. The Passivity of Time Opens the Space for Eco-Political Activity, 14. How Music Listening May Nurture Our Receptivity and Resonance with Nature, 15. The Sense of Wonder as Key to Eco-Bildung, 16. Phenomenology of Friendship in a Common World, Section 5. Vegetal and Animal Life, 17. Empathy with Plants, 18. Practicing Passivity: Through Mystical and Vegetal Being, 19. A Phenomenology of Sexual Difference and Plant Life, 20. Approximate Relations: Chimpanzee Paintings and the Performance of the Human, 21. Eco-Phenomenology and Passivity in Anna Barbauld's "The Caterpillar" and John Clare's "The Mouse's Nest", Section 6. Literary Intersections, 22. Wise Passiveness: Responding to Nature with Wordsworth and Merleau-Ponty, 23. In the Mood for Nature with Heidegger and Thoreau, 24. The Flesh of a Drowned World: Climate Trauma and Porous Living in J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World, 25. Moving Water: Aquatic Experience in Emmi Itäranta's Novel Memory of Water, 26. Poetry and the Forgotten Future: Towards a New Onto-Phenomenology of Poetic Work, Section 7. Eco-Phenomenology in Dialogue, 27. Enacting an Ontological Shift: Individuation and Passivity in Enactivism and Eco-Phenomenology, 28. Making Sense of "Description from Within": An Ontological Perspective, 29. Mindfulness and Eco-Phenomenology: Similarities, Divergences and Critical Potentials, 30. Tired Nature, Tired of Nature: Eco-Phenomenology of Fatigue and Melancholy