- 197 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
What if the pollution of the world did not only concern the environment in which we live, but also the flow of our thoughts in every moment of everyday life? What if those thoughts, invasive like locusts, could transform and become "eco-thoughts" that make us and others feel good? Ecology concerns us from the inside, passes through us, and literally shapes us: "what is inside is outside". This book offers "eco-words" and "eco-thoughts" as it sheds light on the traps that our minds construct for ourselves, that we so often fall into whether we mean to or not. It examines the erroneous paths that we sometimes meander down while we are thinking in our everyday lives in order to help us to identify and avoid them.
The thoughts we formulate are not really ours, as if our mind prefers to flow in what has already been thought, lived, and felt. The author offers her reflections and insights to those who wish to direct their minds towards streams of thought that really do belong to us, that make us feel good. In order to do this, we must learn how to disable the "traps" and free ourselves of what is "contaminating" before they take hold and harm us.
An original and thought-provoking examination of how are own internal lives can become toxic, and how to prevent this, that will be of particular value to students and scholars of sociology, philosophy, communication studies, memory studies, and social psychology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the English edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Architectures of the mind and mindscapes
- 2 Forms of symbolic pollution
- 3 Visual pollution
- 4 Soundscapes and the ecology of sounds
- 5 The ecological mind
- 6 Inter-speciesism, anti-speciesism, and other beliefs
- Postscript: En route. Diary of everyday happiness
- Bibliography
- Index
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