A Phenomenology of the Climate Crisis: Trajectories of Phenomena and How Climate Crisis Informs Our Being-In-the-World Público

Vaughan, Leiana (Spring 2025)

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This thesis examines how the climate crisis shapes our being-in-the-world through a phenomenological lens. Focusing on five interconnected "phenomenological sites"—perception, mood, temporality, place and space, and intersubjectivity—I explore how each reveals the crisis’s impact on our lifeworld. Rather than asserting the mastery of phenomenology, this study critically examines how the climate emergency disrupts and redefines our experiential realities.

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INTRODUCTION 1

PHENOMENOLOGY: A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 4

ECO-ANXIETY, METHODOLOGY, AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL REASONING 8

PERCEPTION 10

HUSSERL, PROFILES 13

MERLEAU-PONTY, EMBODIED PERCEPTION 19

MOOD 22

SOMETHING AMISS 22

HEIDEGGER, MOOD 24

TEMPORALITY 29

THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF TEMPORALITY 29

THE MUG AS A CASE STUDY IN TEMPORAL PERCEPTION 29

THE NATURE OF TIME IN OUR NATURAL ATTITUDE 31

DIFFERENTIAL TEMPORAL EXPERIENCES IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CRISIS 32

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT TO TEMPORALITY 35

PLACE & SPACE 41

NATURE AS MALLEABLE 41

HUSSERL, LIFEWORLD 43

HEIDEGGER, DWELLING 46

INTERSUBJECTIVITY 50

POLITICAL POSTSCRIPT 55

THOUGHTS ON THE MATTER 55

WHAT DO WE DO WITH THIS? 56

CONCLUSION 58

BIBLIOGRAPHY 60

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