Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era

Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era

ORCID

Moser: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3824-1021

MSU Affiliation

College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures

Abstract

Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era is focused on the fields of biosemiotics, linguistics, ecocriticism, and environmental ethics. Closely aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 13.1, Keith Moser’s study aims to strengthen resilience to climate-related hazards by drawing on ecological theories developed by French philosophers in conversation with biosemiotic principles. Not only does the novel theoretical framework offered by biosemiotic interpretations of the universe and our place in it represent an indispensable conceptual tool for understanding the unprecedented medical challenges at the dawn of a new millennium, but it also beckons us to think harder about the environmental crisis that threatens the continued existence of all sentient beings who call the biosphere home. This book also highlights the richness, diversity, and utility of the ecological theories developed by the French philosophers Michel Serres, Edgar Morin, Jacques Derrida, Dominique Lestel, and Michel Onfray in addition to how they engage with biosemiotic principles. Taken together, the book probes the scientific, linguistic, philosophical, and ethical implications of biosemiotic theories in a post-pandemic world from an environmental and medical perspective.

Publication Date

4-7-2022

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Cham

City

Cham, Switzerland

ISBN

978-3-030-96129-9

Comments

© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96129-9