Sustainability in the Anthropocene

Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies
Herausgeber: Lally, Róisín

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays, written by an international group of scholars, provides a more critical and creative contemporary practice of "sustainability." The book sets this practice free from its reductive interpretations and applies a more thoughtful environmental ethics to the current and emerging technologies that dominate our lives.

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Produktdetails

• Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781498584241
• ISBN-10: 1498584241
• Artikelnr.: 62481152

Autorenporträt

Edited by Róisín Lally - Contributions by Cristina Pontes Bonfiglioli; Jan Kyrre Berg Friis; Don Ihde; Babette Babich; Patricia Glazebrook; Róisín Lally; Dana S. Belu; Brendan Mahoney; Galit Wellner; Daniel Bradley; Thomas M. Jeannot and Lars Botin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sustainable Technologies in the Anthropocene
Dan Bradley
Part One: Defining Sustainability
1. Sustainability: a Single Word and a World of Meanings
Cristina Pontes Bonfiglioli
2. Is This the End?
Jan Kyrre Berg Friis
Part Two: Sustainability and Renewable Technologies: Sun, Air, Wind, Water
3. Is it Too Late to "Let the Sun Shine in"?
Don Ihde
4. Talking Weather from Ge-rede to Ge-stell
Babette Babich
5. Water and Oil: Global Struggles in Sustainability
Trish Glazebrook
6. The Ontogenesis of Wind Turbines and the Question of Sustainability
Róisín Lally
Part Three: Sustainability and Design
7. We're in this Together: Climate Change and Reproductive Technology in
the Age of Ge-stell
Dana S. Belu
8. An Alternative to Technological Instrumentalism: Considering the
Aesthetic Dimension of Sustainable Energy
Brendan Mahoney
9. Digital Cultural Sustainability
Galit Wellner
Part Four: Sustainability and Ethics
10. Sustainable Futures: Ethico-Political Dimensions of Technology
Lars Botin
11. Beyond Naturalism: A Personalist Integral Humanism
Thomas Jeannot
12. The Ethics of Sustainability, Instrumental Reason, and the Goodness of
Nature
Daniel Bradley