Reimagining the Role of Cultural Content in the Age of Climate Crisis: Four Ontological Functions
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Reimagining the role of cultural content in the age of climate crisis This article explores the essential role of cultural content in responding to the climate crisis, recognising it as a crisis of the human senses and an existential issue. Drawing on the theories of Martha C. Nussbaum and Christian Rauh, it proposes four key functions that cultural content should fulfil: 1) restoring sensory rhythms, 2) shifting narratives, 3) expanding multi-layered ethics, and 4) sustaining thought. It argues that culture should function as a place to retrain our senses and reflect on our ethical responsibility for existence, and provides a philosophical foundation for the ethical sensitivity and existential role of cultural content in the age of climate crisis.
Author: Dr. Bolim Lee/ Director, LBL Institute of Culture & Arts Education and Engineering, Korea
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6967917766
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