Thinking Nature : : An Essay in Negative Ecology / / Sean J. McGrath.
Makes a compelling case for a new Anthropocenic humanism where humans have a special responsibility for natureThinking Nature tracks the history of the concept of nature from the Hebrew Bible, through Renaissance philosophy and science, to Dark Ecology. Critical of the post-humanist trend in contemp...
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McGrath, Sean J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Thinking Nature : An Essay in Negative Ecology / Sean J. McGrath. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2019 1 online resource (192 p.) : 2 B/W illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda New Perspectives in Ontology : NPO Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Religion is not Only the Problem, but also the Solution -- 2. Nature is a Symbol, but of What? -- 3. The Theology of Disenchantment -- 4. Eco-anxiety -- 5. Dark Ecology -- 6. The Human Difference -- 7. What’s Really Wrong with Heidegger -- 8. Negative Ecology -- 9. The Road not Taken -- 10. Contemplative Politics -- 11. Anthropocenic Nature -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Makes a compelling case for a new Anthropocenic humanism where humans have a special responsibility for natureThinking Nature tracks the history of the concept of nature from the Hebrew Bible, through Renaissance philosophy and science, to Dark Ecology. Critical of the post-humanist trend in contemporary eco-criticism, Sean McGrath makes a compelling case for a new anthropocenic humanism – a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a naturalism that is not at the expense of the human.Nature as the stable backdrop of human civilization appears to have vanished in the light of climate change, mass extinction, and genetic engineering. And yet the term ‘nature’ remains vital to both metaphysics and to public ecological discourse. This is because ‘nature’, in McGrath’s view, is a living symbol, and can survive the extinction of one or another of its meanings. Contemporary ecology must proceed in the absence of a clear concept of nature, not because none are possible, but because of the depth of the transformation occurring to the earth in the Anthropocene. Whatever shape the new concept of nature will take, it must include the one who thinks nature, the human being, since the separation of nature from culture, facts from values, is no longer tenable.Key FeaturesOffers a fresh perspective on environmental issuesShows how religion is not only still relevant to the environmental discussion but it is essential to the rethinking of nature needed todayAnalyses cutting edge concepts in ecology such as the technosphere – the notion of technology becoming a self-organising systemArgues for an anthropocenic defence of the traditional distinction between human and non-human life and culture" Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Philosophy of nature. Philosophy. NATURE / Ecology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110780420 print 9781474449267 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474449281 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474449281 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474449281/original |
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