Patrick Curry

Environmental philosopher Dr Patrick Curry explores how enchantment – a sense of wonder, awe or amazement – is central to a well-lived life and key to the future of the planet.

Curry will discuss the experience of enchantment and its opposite disenchantment. Why does it matter? Is it a frivolous concern given present-day suffering and injustice? What are its implications for the crises we face, such as the ecological one? What about the re-enchantment of the world? And can enchantment become part of a way of life? If so, how?

Curry has written on topics ranging widely from environmental ethics to cosmology and literature and has lectured at the University of Kent and University of Bath Spa. He is author of Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity and Ecological Ethics and editor-in-chief of The Ecological Citizen.

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