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A Critical Theory for the Anthropocene
Title
A Critical Theory for the Anthropocene [electronic resource] / by Nathanaël Wallenhorst.
ISBN
9783031377389
Edition
1st ed. 2023.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XVII, 462 p.) 1 illus.
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Summary
This volume, which is rooted in biogeophysical studies, addresses conceptions of political action in the Anthropocene and the tension between a desire to accomplish the Promethean project of modernity and a post-Promethean approach. This work explores the idea of an anthropological mutation of political consolidation from a "post-Promethean togetherness", to creating the capacity to act together. The political thinking of the human condition developed by Hannah Arendt is important here as a resource for thinking about humanity in terms of human adventure. This has three dimensions: hubris, the world and coexistence referring respectively to the logic of profit of the homo oeconomicus, the logic of responsibility of the homo collectivus and the logic of the hospitality of the homo religatus. The intellectual and political attitude outlined in this book is an extension of critical theory: the work also puts forward a critique of what poses a problem in our relationship to the world and suggests how to overcome it, the ultimate goal being social transformation. The author propose an uprising and an anthropological consolidation of politics based on the revitalization that is brought about by the sharing of a conviviality both between humans and with what is non-human. The identification of conviviality as an educational paradigm to survive the Anthropocene gives us the much needed reason for hope despite this heritage of the Anthropocene. In addition to Arendtian thinking, this critical theory for the Anthropocene draws on the political thinking of several contemporary authors including Maurice Bellet, Hartmut Rosa, Andreas Weber, Dominique Bourg, and Christian Arnsperger. This volume is of interest to researchers in the Anthropocene.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 19, 2023
Series
Anthropocene - Humanities and Social Sciences,
Contents
Introduction
Part One: The tensions of politics in the Anthropocene
Chapter 1. Introduction to the Anthropocene
Chapter 2. The notion of planetary limits
Chapter 3. The political ambivalences of the Anthropocene
Chapter 4. Conceptions of political action in the Anthropocene: between Prometheism and post-Prometheism
Chapter 5. The entry of the Anthropocene into the citizens' debate
Part Two: A political consolidation requiring an anthropological mutation
Chapter 6. The idea of anthropological mutation
Chapter 7. Overcoming the contemporary anthropological crisis
Chapter 8. From the (augmented) individual to a post-Promethean togetherness
Chapter 9. From the human condition to the human adventure
Part Three: Conviviality as a paradigm of political education
Chapter 10. Learning convivial citizenship in the Anthropocene
Chapter 11. Resistant education: confronting the emerging hubris
Chapter 12. Critical education: we are not separate from the Earth, we are the Earth
Chapter 13. Utopian education: the Earth and the world speak
Conclusion: Education to change the world in the Anthropocene.
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