在日益危急的环境变化和生态危机下,源于地质词汇的“人类世”成为最被认可的描述现状的有力概念,跨学科的环境人文
也在近年迅速成为一个重点学术领域。本课程将引导学生进入“人类世”,结合最新环境科学研究,从环境人文的角度切入
其中如全球变暖、物种灭绝、气候和生态灾害、垃圾污染等显题,梳理其背后的思想史、全球社会发展史和环境史,解析
复杂生态网络下的因果链条、解决之道及其困境;与此同时,本课程将介绍传统人文社科思想在变动中的环境和社会下所
产生的反应和反思趋势,对人类个体存在、社会及其意识形态的哲学和理论重构,并由其探索如何通过(且必须通过)人
文艺术和社会理论来关切现实,理解现代生活全景,审视日常生活实践,提供正向情感维系和审美,触动危机背后的深层
思想根源,培育不同尺度下的环境伦理、社会正义、生态哲学和有效改变。每节课将聚焦一个重要话题作多学科多面向的
解析和探讨,整门课程将启发青年学生关注现实,思考自我与世界,迎解难题,为面对未来的环境和社会挑战作好准备。
As environmental change and ecological crises keep ever intensifying, the geological term “Anthropocene” comes to be
the most circulated concept that powerfully grasps our current existential condition; meanwhile, Environmental
Humanities quickly become a major transdisciplinary academic field. This course shall guide students into the
Anthropocene. Exposed to up-to-date findings of environmental sciences, it looks into major issues such as global
warming, mass extinction, climate and ecological disasters, waste and pollution through the lens of environmental
humanities, aiming to recount the intellectual, social, and environmental history at the backdrop, and analyze the chains,
solutions, and complexities in the ecological mesh. This course simultaneously introduces major reactive and reflective
trends in humanities and social sciences in the changing environment, bringing in philosophical deconstruction and
reconstruction of humanity, human society, and ideology in relation to ecological awakening. Along the way the course
probes how humanities, arts, and social theories can and must be engaged to tackle environmental reality, in
understanding the panorama of our modern life, examining everyday life practice, fostering positive emotions and
aesthetics, inspecting the “roots” of the crises ingrained in our thinking, and cultivating multi-scalar environmental ethics,
social justice, eco-philosophy, and effective change. Unpacking one focal topic from multi-disciplinary scopes in each
class, altogether the course aims to inspire a caring, wholesome, and pensive vision of the world in college students and
prepare them for future environmental and social challenges.
本课程预期让学生掌握以下技能和知识:
· 对当下环境问题及其社会关联有全局的理解
· 熟悉环境人文的主要思想
· 基础的搜索和引用学术资源的能力
· 初级学术写作能力
· 基础的自主思辨能力
Upon successful completion, students will be able to:
- Perceive the whole picture of current environmental issues and their social implications
- Understand the major thoughts in Environmental Humanities
- Acquire basic skills in searching and citing academic sources
- Acquire basic skills in academic writing
- Strengthen their self-reliant and critical thinking