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After Nature : A Politics for the Anthropocene / Jedediah Purdy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purdy, Jedediah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Human beings--Effect of environment on.
- Human beings.
- Human ecology.
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1 An Unequal Terrain
- 2. God’s Avid Gardeners
- 3. Nature as Teacher
- 4. Natural Utopias
- 5. A Conservationist Empire
- 6. A Wilderness Passage into Ecology
- 7. Environmental Law in the Anthropocene
- 8. What Kind of Democracy?
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Mrz 2018)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-91567-4
- OCLC:
- 1029821693
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