After Nature A Politics for the Anthropocene

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purd...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Purdy, Jedediah
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2015]
Ausgabe:
Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
Zusammenfassung:
Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world
Umfang:
1 online resource (336 p.)
ISBN:
9780674915671
DOI:
10.4159/9780674915671
Zugangseinschränkungen:
restricted access
Schlagworte:
Human beings / Effect of environment on
Human ecology
Nature / Effect of human beings on
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Philosophical anthropology
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
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