The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis

Rethinking modernity in a new epoch
Herausgeber: Bonneuil, Christophe; Hamilton, Clive; Gemenne, François

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Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking modernity in a new epoch. This book captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival of the Anthropocene and opens up the social sciences and humanities to the profound meaning of the new geological epoch, the Age of Humans. It presents some of the challenges and difficult questions posed by the convergence of geological and human history. As well as calling for a greater reflexivity when talking about the Anthropocene, it shows that what has been represented as the impact of the human species on its environment is fundamentally a political issue, raising questions about power, global distribution and

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The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question. The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival of the Anthropocene and opens up the social sciences and humanities to the profound meaning of the new geological epoch, the 'Age of Humans'. Drawing on the expertise of world-recognised scholars and thought-provoking intellectuals, the book explores the challenges and difficult questions posed by the convergence of geological and human history to the foundational ideas of modern social science. If in the Anthropocene humans have become a force of nature, changing the functioning of the Earth system as volcanism and glacial cycles do, then it means the end of the idea of nature as no more than the inert backdrop to the drama of human affairs. It means the end of the 'social-only' understanding of human history and agency. These pillars of modernity are now destabilised. The scale and pace of the shifts occurring on Earth are beyond human experience and expose the anachronisms of 'Holocene thinking'. The book explores what kinds of narratives are emerging around the scientific idea of the new geological epoch, and¿what it means for the 'politics of unsustainability'. ¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9781138821231
• ISBN-10: 1138821233
• Artikelnr.: 42469204

Autorenporträt

Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia. Christophe Bonneuil is a Senior researcher in History at the Centre A. Koyré (CNRS, EHESS and MNHN) Paris, France. François Gemenne is a Research fellow at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (CEARC), France and at the University of Liège (CEDEM), Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Thinking the Anthropocene Part 1: The concept and its implications 2.
The Geological Turn: Narratives of the Anthropocene 3. Human Destiny in the
Anthropocene 4. The Anthropocene and the Convergence of Histories 5. The
Political Ecology of the Technocene: Uncovering ecologically unequal
exchange in the world-system 6. Losing the Earth Knowingly: Six grammars of
environmental reflexivity around 1800 Part 2: Catastrophism in the
Anthropocene 7. Anthropocene, Catastrophism and Green Political Theory 8.
Eschatology in the Anthropocene: From the chronos of deep time to the
kairos of the age of humans 9. Green Eschatology Part 3: Rethinking
politics 10. Back to the Holocene: A conceptual, and possibly practical,
return to a nature not intended for humans 11. Accepting the Reality of
Gaia: A fundamental shift? 12. Telling Friends from Foes in the Time of the
Anthropocene 13. A Much-Needed Renewal of Environmentalism? Eco-politics in
the Anthropocene 14. The Anthropocene and Its Victims Epilogue 15.
Commission on Planetary Ages Decision CC87966424/49: The Onomatophore of
the Anthropocene