Today we face environmental problems, but in spite of all we know it is hard to change our lives. What explains this lack of motivation and change? Discussing the relations between moral motivation, knowledge, and modernity, this book criticizes modern and romantic thinking about "nature" based on abstract reasoning and detached sentiments. It shows how an environmental ethics centered on the concept of environmental skill opens up alternative ways of relating to our environment.

1. Introduction Part I: Environmental Motivation and Knowledge: Ancient and Modern Lessons from Philosophy and Psychology 2. The Moral Psychology of Environmental "Sin" 3. Lessons from Contemporary Psychology Part II: The Janus Face of Modern Environmentalism: Enlightenment and Romanticism 4. Enlightenment Reason and Liberation Politics 5. Romantic Feeling for Nature Part III: Beyond, Nature, beyond Modernity, beyond Thinking: A Non-Romantic, Non-Modern Approach 6. Beyond "Nature" and Modernity: Towards Non-Dualistic Thinking 7. Beyond Environmental Thinking (1): Skilled Engagement 8. Beyond Environmental Thinking (2): Exercising Virtue and Moral Sentiment Part IV: Implications for Environmental Ethics and Philosophy of Technology 9. Implications for Environmental Ethics (1): Beyond Walking in "Nature" 10. Implications for Environmental Ethics (2): Exploring the Possibility of Non-Modern and Non-Romantic Environmental Living 11. The Art of Environmental Practice as an Ethics of Skill: Revisiting the Problem of Technology and its Relation to Alienation 12. Conclusion: The Possibility of a New Environmental Ethics

Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University, UK. Previously he was Managing Director of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology and affiliated to the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente. His publications include Growing Moral Relations (2012), Human Being @ Risk (2013), and numerous publications in the area of ethics and technology, in particular ethics of robotics and ICTs. His research interests include philosophy of technology, environmental philosophy and moral philosophy.