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Course: Deep Ecology: from Thinking to the Sensuous World

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Course title Deep Ecology: from Thinking to the Sensuous World
Course code MRS/HEK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Exercise
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Daněk Tomáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
unspecified

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Observation, Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization), Group work, Listening
Learning outcomes
Deep ecology is concerned with the relationship between thinking, experience and practice in the context of environmental problems. It also problematizes the explicitly positive perception of a technocratic approach to reality. The course will introduce various heterodox perspectives on nature and explore together the possibilities of other ways of knowing and experiencing nature. Based on these experiences, we will seek new forms of personal relationship with nature and, thus, solutions to environmental challenges.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Dialog, Final project

Recommended literature
  • Abram, D. (2010). Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. New York, Vintage Books.
  • Abram, D. (2013). Kouzlo smyslů. Praha, DharmaGaia.
  • Capra, F., Luisi, P. L. (2014). The Systems View of Life. Cambridge University Press.
  • Harding, S. (2009). Animate Earth. Science, Intuition and Gaia. Foxhole, Totnes: Green Books.
  • Haskell, D. G. (2023). Sounds Wild and Broken. New York, Penguin Random House.
  • Kimmerer, R. W. (2013). Braiding Sweetgrass. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions.
  • Kimmerer, R. W. (2021). Naslouchání mechu. Brno, Kazda.
  • Lovelock, J. (1994). Gaia: živoucí planeta. Praha, Mladá fronta.
  • Margulis, L. (2004). Symbiotická planeta: Nový pohled na evoluci. Praha, Academia.
  • Mathews, F. (2005). Reinhabiting Reality. Albany, SUNY Press.
  • Naess, A. (1994). Ekologie, pospolitost a životní styl. Tulčík, Abies.
  • Pleštil, D. (2006). Okrem ducha. Oikoymenh.
  • Portmann, A. (1997). Nové cesty biologie I. In: Fiala, Jiří; Neubauer, Zdeněk; Pinc, Zdeněk (eds.). Ke 100. výročí narození Adolfa Portmanna. Scientia & Philosophia 7. Praha, Hrnčířství a nakladatelství Michal Jůza & Eva Jůzová, s. 49-161.
  • Seed, J., Macy, J., Fleming, P., Naess, A. (1993). Myslet jako hora. Tulčík, Abies.
  • Sheldrake, M. (2020). Propletený život. Brno, Kazda.
  • Simard, S. (2022). Hledání mateřského stromu. Brno, Kazda.
  • Weber, A. (2017). Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology. White River Junction, Chelsea Green Publishing.


Study plans that include the course
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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 03.11.2025 23:58. Data created for academic year 2025/2026