Eco-Imagination towards a Sustainable Future: Perspectives from Philosophies in Islam
About this ebook
Philosophers, mystics, and poets from a variety of Islamic countries, schools, and worldviews are introduced and debated. Sustainable futures evolved in harmony with everything there is alive (Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka), are currently more threatened than ever. Wars, ecological destructivity, the climate crisis, and not least the crisis of the Human Being call urgently for a cross-religious, cultural, and generational understanding. Lively debates in Islam, taking place on philosophical problems for hundreds of years, often based on the same roots as in Occidental Phenomenology, e.g., Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus, are still too little known in the Occident/West. The prolific and poetic arguments, introduced for the first time in an eco-imaginative horizon, do not belong to the past. This volume invites students and researchers to uncover Islamic Philosophies’ potentialities for a shared sustainable future.
About the author
Detlev Quintern is a Junior Professor at the Turkish German University in Istanbul. He holds a PhD in history with a focus on the 10th-century collective of Ikhwan as-Safa from Bremen University. His research fields are universal over lacings in the history of philosophy, ideas and sciences, cultural memory, and museology of cultural heritage.
Daniela Verducci, Dr. of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, retired in 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.
