Introduction to

Oele, Marjolein

dc.contributor.author	Oele, Marjolein
dc.date.accessioned	2025-03-31T17:29:47Z
dc.date.available	2025-03-31T17:29:47Z
dc.date.issued	2025-04-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/16295
dc.description	Beyond Elemental Loss offers an important and innovative contribution to environmental philosophy by investigating loss in times of anthropogenic climate change through the elements of water, fire, air, and earth. Marjolein Oele argues that the current experience of loss prompts a reassessment of the conventional meaning and conceptualization of loss. She proposes that such loss is best understood through infinitesimal, diachronic shifts occurring in the elemental constellations that structure the world-water, fire, air, and earth-and humanity's incremental inability to cognitively and affectively make sense of this world increasingly transformed by anthropogenic forces. Through a generous yet critical reading of a broad range of interdisciplinary sources tracing changes in our relationship to the elemental over time, Oele's scholarship plumbs the history of philosophy as much as it pulls from Indigenous philosophies, continental thought, mythologies, anthropological and historical sources, science, and ecology. The book's argumentative arc ultimately directs our attention toward constructive transformations in our cognitive and affective habits, and it argues that trust can bring us beyond elemental loss.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Offers an important and innovative contribution to environmental philosophy by investigating loss in times of anthropogenic climate change through the elements of water, fire, air, and earth.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	SUNY Press	en_US
dc.relation.url	https://sunypress.edu/Books/B/Beyond-Elemental-Loss	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	cultural studies	en_US
dc.subject	environmental studies	en_US
dc.subject	environmental philosophy	en_US
dc.subject	social science	en_US
dc.subject	anthropology	en_US
dc.title	Introduction to "Beyond Elemental Loss"	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Shifting Constellations of Water, Fire, Air, and Earth	en_US
dc.type	Book chapter	en_US
dc.description.version	VoR	en_US
refterms.dateFOA	2025-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.description.institution	N/A	en_US
dc.description.degreelevel	N/A	en_US