EARTH EMOTIONS: NEW WORDS FOR A NEW WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 03360019C00012
English Summary/英文概要： As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century.
Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author’s concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia―love of life―for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene.
With the current and coming generations, "Generation Symbiocene," Albrecht sees reason for optimism. The battle between the forces of destruction and the forces of creation will be won by Generation Symbiocene, and Earth Emotions presents an ethical and emotional odyssey for that victory.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 由于气候变化和发展对环境造成的不负重压，让我们和地球之间的情感关系也陷入了危机。悲观和痛苦情绪笼罩在全世界人们的心头。作者Glenn A. Albrecht写道，当你身处在家时，你会陷入一种“身在家乡的乡愁”(Solastalgia)，思乡①的情绪漩涡之中，而这也成为21世纪决定性的情绪之一。
本书检视了我们积极和消极的地球情绪。解释了作者的心理学新词‘乡痛’概念，以及其他众所周知的其他生态情感，如哈佛的昆虫学家Edward o .Wilson称之为“biophilia(亲生命)”，让人们亲近其他生物，和恋地情结“Topophilia”②。Albrecht向我们介绍了许多需要描述我们对世界的紧急状态下，情绪反应的全部范围的新词。Albrecht认为，我们需要创造一种积极情绪的充满希望的词汇，这样我们就可以把自己从荒凉的环境中解放出来，重新点燃我们几千年的热爱生命的精神——为了我们的地球家园。为此，他提出了一个戏剧性的变化，从当前人类主导的‘人类世’③时代，到一个将建立在物质上，道德上，政治上和精神上的革命，在思想上由当代共生科学交付。Albrecht将这一时期命名为“共生新世”。④
① 2004年，澳大利亚哲学家格伦·阿尔布雷克特(Glenn Albrecht)提出了一种“身在家乡的乡愁”——乡痛(Solastalgia)——由于故土的环境被迫改变，或者文化传统发生中断(比如新一代人的思想发生改变之后，无法再与传统的文化产生链接)，以至于人们虽然身处家乡，却觉得和家乡的联结断裂了。
② Topophilia”（源于希腊语词汇“地域”和“钟爱”）意为强烈的地域感，通常与一种感知相融合，即在某一人群之间的文化认同感。“恋地情结Topophilia”这一概念系著名地理学家段义孚所创，意指对身处环境的情感依附，即一个人在精神、情绪和认知上维系于某地的纽带。
③人类世是指地球的最近代历史，人类世并没有准确的开始年份，可能是由18世纪末人类活动对气候及生态系统造成全球性影响开始。
④共生新世(来自希腊的sumbiosis，或陪伴)。“共生”一词的科学意义意味着为了互惠互利而共同生活。
对于现代和未来的几代人，Albrecht看到了“世代共生体”这一理念乐观的理由。毁灭力量和创造力量之间的角逐，将会被共生一代所赢得，而本书为这场胜利，呈现了一个在伦理上和情感上的艰难征程。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况："In Earth Emotions, Albrecht seeks to provide a new lexicon of emotional terms. The purpose of these terms is twofold: first, to allow people make better sense of themselves and of their relationship with the planet; second, to encourage development of a more meaningful and optimistic outlook toward the planet."
(Choice)
"Albrecht offers a framework within which to understand and acknowledge the dissociation of humans from the living world. With a new language and means of expression, a wider array of stories from diverse voices can hopefully be heard. "
(The Independent)
"Glenn Albrecht’s vision is at once realistic and contagiously optimistic. Through unique language, he names the heart-breaking loss we feel as nature gets pummeled. Yet our senses open and our smiles re-emerge as we recognize that such destruction can be the catalyst for the evolution of human consciousness. This book is a manifesto for a new Earth."(Peter Kahn, University of Washington, author of Technological Nature)
"Glenn Albrecht is one of the most important
eco-philosophers of our time, though the term
’eco-philosopher’ may be too narrow. He is
also a map-maker: he names the roads ahead,
the dead-ends, the detours, and potential
destinations. And, unlike so many scientists, he
does not describe those roads only with
numbers, but with a new language of emotions
— those now emerging from the tragedy and
the possibility of the Earth.” —Richard Louv,
author of The Nature Principle
“Glenn A. Albrecht has written a superb book,
one that is hugely novel, insightful, and
rewarding. Everything in this book matters.”—Jules Pretty, University of Essex, author of
The East Country
"Glenn Albrecht’s important new book gives names to the experiences of life in the Anthropocene; the repertoire of ’Earth
emotions’ that have been called out of us by the plight of the planet. A remarkable work of interdisciplinary philosophy that unites
eco-linguistics and story-telling, this open-hearted, sharp-minded book not only diagnoses what Kristeva once called our ’new
maladies of the soul’, but shows us a way to escape them; by moving out of the Anthropocene and into the Symbiocene.”—Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland and The Old Ways
“Earth Emotions is thorough, composed, and historically illusionary. Grounded and powerful in its message, this book helps explain
in an accessible way the history of Earth emotion neologisms and the relationships of land and psyche.” —Nick Stanger, Huxley
College of the Environment, Washington University
“Glenn Albrecht’s vision is at once realistic and contagiously optimistic. Through unique language, he names the heart-breaking loss we feel as nature gets pummeled. Yet our senses open and our smiles re-emerge as we recognize that such destruction can be the catalyst for the evolution of human consciousness. This book is a manifesto for a new Earth.” —Peter Kahn, University of Washington, author of Technological Nature
About the Author/作者介绍： Glenn A. Albrecht 是澳大利亚环境思想家。他建立了现在广泛使用和接受“乡痛”概念，或消极环境变化的生活经验。他是悉尼大学地球科学学院的荣誉研究员。Glenn A. Albrecht is an Australian environmental thinker. He established the now widely used and accepted concept of solastalgia, or the lived experience of negative environmental change. He is an Honorary Associate in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney.
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