Time, technology and environment : an essay on the philosophy of nature / Marco Altamirano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altamirano, Marco, author.

Series:

Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies.

Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

vii, 175 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

One of the legacies of modern philosophy is to have separated or bifurcated the human from nature. Marco Altamirano offers a critique of the modern concept of nature in order to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. By examining the history of the concept of nature, Altamirano shows how a spatial and epistemological concept of nature emerged in Descartes, where a subject confronts an object in space and subsequently wonders about her mode of access to that object. He then argues that a time-based concept of nature is necessary in order to reinstall the subject within its concrete ecology. Deploying conceptual resources from Bergson, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, and Leroi-Gourhan (among others), Altamirano shows how the concept of technology harbors an escape route from the spatial and epistemological picture of nature. Ultimately, this book draws the profile of a concept of nature based on time and technology that bypasses the nature-artifice distinction that has mired the philosophy of nature since modern philosophy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Critique of the Bifurcation of Nature

1 The Clock and the Cogito 21

2 The Polarisation of Nature 48

Part II Toward a New Philosophy of Nature

3 Difference and Representation: Deleuze and the Reversal of Platonism 83

4 Beyond the Nature-Artifice Divide: Technology, Milieu and Machine 117.

ISBN:

9780748691579

074869157X

OCLC:

949848902