Nature and Value / / ed. by Akeel Bilgrami.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Bilgrami, Akeel,; Britton-Purdy, Jedediah,; Bromwich, David,; Gogineni, Bina,; Kompridis, Nikolas,; Kyle, Nichols,; Laden, Anthony Simon,; Picciotto, Joanna,; Pollin, Robert,; Reddy, Sanjay G.,; Rovane, Carol,; Schell, Jonathan,; Tully, James,; Zalasiewicz, Jan,
• HerausgeberIn: Bilgrami, Akeel,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bromwich, David.; Gogineni, Bina.; Kompridis, Nikolas.; Laden, Anthony.; Nichols, Kyle.; Picciotto, Joanna.; Pollin, Robert.; Purdy, Jedediah.; Reddy, Sanjay.; Rovane, Carol.; Schell, Jonathan.; Tully, James Hamilton.; Zalasiewicz, Jan.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications.A distinguished list of scholars take up a broad range of questions regarding the relations between the human subject and its natural environment: when and how the concept of nature gave way to the concept of natural resources; the genealogy of the concept of nature through political economy, theology, and modern science; the idea of the Anthropocene; the prospects for green growth; and the deep alienation of human beings in the modern period from both nature and each other. By engaging with a wide range of scholarship, they ultimately converge on a common outlook that is both capacious and original. The essays together present a revaluation of the natural world that seeks to reshape political and ethical ideals and practice with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time.Nature and Value features widely known scholars in a broad swath of disciplines, ranging from philosophy, politics, and political economy to geology, law, literature, and psychology. They include Jonathan Schell, David Bromwich, James Tully, Jedediah Purdy, Robert Pollin, Jan Zalasiewicz, Carol Rovane, Sanjay Reddy, Joanna Picciotto, Anthony Laden, Nikolas Kompridis, Bina Gogineni, Kyle Nichols, and the editor, Akeel Bilgrami.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Nature and Value -- 2. The Human Shadow -- 3. The Anthropocene and Global Warming: A Brief Update -- 4. The Extraordinary Strata of the Anthropocene -- 5. The Anthropocene Dating Problem: Disciplinary Misalignments, Paradigm Shifts, and the Possibility for New Foundations in Science -- 6. Disciplinary Variations on the Anthropocene: Temporality and Epistemic Authority. Response to Kyle Nichols and Bina Gogineni -- 7. Value and Alienation: A Revisionist Essay on Our Political Ideals -- 8. Equality and Liberty: Beyond a Boundary. Response to Akeel Bilgrami -- 9. Experimenting with Other People -- 10. The Green Growth Path to Climate Stabilization -- 11. All Too Human: Orienting Environmental Law in a Remade World -- 12. Life Sustains Life 1: Value, Social and Ecological -- 13. Life Sustains Life 2: The Ways of Reengagement with the Living Earth -- 14. The Value of Sustainability and the Sustainability of Value -- 15. Varieties of Agency: Comment on Anthony Laden -- 16. Nonhuman Agency and Human Normativity -- 17. Natural Piety and Human Responsibility -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX