Phenomenology and Future Generations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Phenomenology and Future Generations?
Matthias Fritsch, Ferdinando G. Menga, and Rebecca van der Post

Section 1. Generativity: The Future Is of Us and in Us

1. Generativity and Ethics: A Phenomenological Approach
Mario Vergani

2. Responding to the Claims of Those Who Shall Come After Us
Bernhard Waldenfels

3. Generativity, Generations, and Generative Intergenerational Solidarity: Untimely Reflections on the Way We Live After One Another, With One Another, and For One Another, in Its Unforeseeable Historicity
Burkhard Liebsch

Section 2. The Politics of Human Generations

4. Absences that Matter: Phenomenological Insights into (the Predicaments of ) Intergenerational Justice
Ferdinando G. Menga

5. How Can We Take Claims of Future Generations Seriously? Combining Different Perspectives in Our Action
Eva Buddeberg

6. Jonasian Grounding of Future-Oriented Responsibility and the Idea of the Human
Hiroshi Abe

7. "The Race of the Poor": Intergenerational Lessons from Anarchist Eugenics
Anne O'Byrne

Section 3. Amor Mundi in Presentist Modernity

8. Critical Theory, Natal Alienation, Future People
Matthias Fritsch

9. In Our Element
Rebecca van der Post

10. From Love of World to Love of Earth: Taking Responsibility for the Future of the Planet
Kelly Oliver

Contributors
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