The Ethos of the Climate Event: Ethical Transformations and Political Subjectivities

This book develops a politico-ethical response to climate change that accounts for the novelty and uncertainty that it entails.

This volume explores the ethical dimensions of climate change and posits that one must view it as a social construction intimately tied to political issues in order to understand and overcome this environmental challenge. To show how this ethos builds upon the need for new forms of responsiveness, Anfinson analyzes it in terms of four features: commitment, worldly ...