Wendy Lynne Lee

Eco-Nihilism

The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse

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Produktbeschreibung

Eco-Nihilism: The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse argues that there are no versions of conquest capital compatible with the fact of a finite planet, and that the pursuit of growth is destined to not only exhaust our planetary resources, but generate profound social injustice and geopolitical violence in its pursuit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 913g
• ISBN-13: 9780739176887
• ISBN-10: 0739176889
• Artikelnr.: 47114583

Autorenporträt

By Wendy Lynne Lee

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Planet Doesn't Need Human Beings; Human Beings Need the Planet Chapter 1: Ecological Apocalypse
The Pathologies of Capital
Human Chauvinism-And the Improbable Desirable Future Chapter 2: Human Chauvinism
The Geopolitics of Climate Change
And the Pop-Cultural Ecocentric Solution Chapter 3: The Nihilistic Rhetoric of Climate Change Denial
Neoliberal Anxieties
and The Death of Science-Seven Takes Chapter 4: Globalization in the Circulatory System of Capital and the Death of the Nation State
The Fully Capitalized Planet
Five Takes Chapter 5: Salvation Capitalism: Steady State Sustainability
Techno-Utopia
and Planetary Metastasis-Six Takes Chapter 6: The Reclamation of Human-Centeredness and an Eco-Feminist Systems Approach to the Desirable Future