After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674979869 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Everett Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. Jedediah Purdy is Robinson O.
An Artforum Best Book of the YearA Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the YearNature no longer exists apart from humanity. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are questions for politicsa politics that does not yet exist. We will live, or die, by our mistakes.”Christine Smallwood, Harper’s“Dazzling…Purdy hopes that climate change might spur yet another change in how we thin
The book is a very good overview of how the notion of "nature" has evolved Thomas O'Brien The book is a very good overview of how the notion of "nature" has evolved over the centuries in the U.S. The book does a good job of connecting historical events to the philosophies of different eras that viewed the natural world in distinct and sometimes contradictory ways. This gives the reader background in how many of ou. "Five Stars" according to fred springer. a must read -- intelligent and really well written - puts things together in a really useful way.. His writing isn't like Michael Pollen the crit After Nature was highlighted on Art Forum's Booklist recently. Ecology, Economics, and Politics are discussed in a way that is accessible to both (man made) climate warming acceptors and deniers. ( My stepfather is a man made climate change denier, but this text offers up arguments that even he has made for a change in creati
Dazzling… Purdy’s book is, among other things, a panoramic tour of what he calls the ‘American environmental imagination.’ …Purdy hopes that climate change might spur yet another change in how we think about the natural world, but he insists that such a shift will be inescapably political… For a relatively slim volume, this book distills an incredible amount of scholarshipabout Americans’ changing attitudes toward the natural world, and about how those attitudes might change in the future. (Liz Larner Artforum 2016-12-01) . Purdy…brings impressive intellectual and literary chops to bear on a history of American attitudes