May 29, 2023 | 19:30
Faculty of the ETSIME-UPM
“An introduction to environmental thinking”
The book:
Being an environmentalist today is inevitable and complicated. Inevitable, because the current review of our relationship with nature is not the result of a trend or a situation, but rather our destiny. Complicated, because it means thinking many things differently, modifying basic and very consolidated ideas and values.
This book is a proposal for new styles of thinking and new common imaginaries aimed both at those who are already immersed in the transition towards a world different from the current one, in which the environment will be one of its fundamental nuclei, and at those who still feel mistrust. or rejection of that change, but they are aware that it is no longer possible to look the other way. One of its goals is to show that environmentalism is not simply a theory or a doctrine, but a new field of knowledge in which many diverse theories and approaches coexist, and not always compatible, that require our intellectual effort, our critical sense and our commitment to the truth.
This work shows the panorama of this diversity with the intention that each reader knows how to find their focus in a rational and open debate, and answer the question: what type of environmentalist are you?
The Lecturers:
Ignacio Quintanilla Navarro (Zaragoza, 1960)
Professor of Theory and History of Education in the Department of Educational Studies of the Complutense University. Writer, philosopher and psychologist, he researches the history of ideas, philosophy of technology and nature and theory of knowledge and intelligence. He is a member of the Civic Culture and Educational Policies research group and the innovation project on Environmental Humanities of the UCM. For years he has been studying the evolution of ecological thought in Europe and the USA.
Pilar Andrade Boué (Madrid, 1966)
Literature professor in the Romance Studies department of the Complutense University of Madrid. She has published books and articles on various French authors of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, as well as translations. For several years her research has focused on literature and environmental studies: ecological and ecological theories and themes, catastrophe writing and zoopoetics. She currently belongs to the ecocriticism and environmental humanities research group GIECO.
