Addressing Contemporary Sustainability Challenges Through Eco-imagination: Knowledge, Literature, Arts and the Sciences

This contributed volume presents eco-imagination as a new tool for knowledge and cultural, artistic, as well as scientific expression.  Herein eco-phenomenology becomes capable of opening a viable path towards a future of environmental and human sustainability. The contemporary urgency of sustainable configurations of the world and of life has made clear the inadequacy of the traditional phenomenological conception of imagination, understood in the mere relationship with perception. These chapters verify the ecological potential of the imagination, thanks to which the latent virtualities in the processes of self-individualization that constitute evolving life become visible. The book collectively argues that only if we use the eco-imagination can one introduce new forms of design thinking needed, since they are intrinsic to the ontopoietic progression of the logos of life.  This volume appeals to students and researchers in phenomenology and related fields.

Daniela Verducci, Dr. of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, retired since November 2018. Currently, holder of a teaching contract for an Advanced Seminar in Phenomenology at the University of Macerata (Italy). Co-President of The World Phenomenology Institute (European and Asian Divisions) and Co-editor in Chief of both the Springer series, ANHU and IPOP. Member of the Max-Scheler-Gesellschaft.

Renato Boccali is Professor at the IULM University of Milan teaching Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. He is the coordinator of the Master's degree course in Art, valorisation and the market and deputy coordinator of the PhD in Visual and Media Studies. His interests are focused mainly on theories and practices of image in the contemporary world, the phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition, the philosophy of translation as well as the relationships between philosophy, arts and literature.