{"product_id":"facing-gaia-9780745684338","title":"Facing Gaia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of Nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of Nature have been continuously developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eListed as one of Resurgence \u0026amp; Ecologist's 2017 Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFacing Gaia\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a toolbox for many disciplines. It harbours crucial insights: we are witnessing a catastrophe in which we are all implicated… Latour argues that it matters what each of us thinks and does. It will be written in clouds, spelt in stone, legible in water.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAustralian Book Review \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e First Lecture: On the Instability of the (Notion of) Nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A mutation of the relation to the world ¥ Four ways to be driven crazy by ecology ¥ The instability of the nature\/culture relation ¥ The invocation of human nature ¥ The recourse to the �natural world� ¥ On a great service rendered by the pseudo-controversy over the climate ¥ �Go tell your masters that the scientists are on the warpath!� ¥ In which we seek to pass from �nature� to the world ¥ How to face up\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Second Lecture: How Not to (De-)Animate Nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Disturbing �truths� ¥ Describing in order to warn ¥ In which we concentrate on agency ¥ On the difficulty of distinguishing between humans and nonhumans ¥ �And yet it moves!� ¥ A new version of natural law ¥ On an unfortunate tendency to confuse cause and creation ¥ Toward a nature that would no longer be a religion?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Third Lecture: Gaia, a (Finally Secular) Figure for Nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Galileo, Lovelock: Two symmetrical discoveries ¥ Gaia, an exceedingly treacherous mythical name for a scientific theory ¥ A parallel with Pasteur�s microbes ¥ Lovelock too makes micro-actors proliferate ¥ How to avoid the idea of a system? ¥ Organisms make their own environment, they do not adapt to it ¥ On a slight complication of Darwinism ¥ Space, an offspring of history\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fourth Lecture: The Anthropocene and the Destruction of (the Image of) the Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Anthropocene: an innovation ¥ Mente et Malleo ¥ A debatable term for an uncertain epoch ¥ An ideal opportunity to disaggregate the figures of Man and Nature ¥ Sloterdijk or the theological origin of the image of the Sphere ¥ Confusion between Science and the Globe ¥ Tyrrell against Lovelock ¥ Feedback loops do not draw a Globe ¥ Finally, a different principle of composition ¥ Melancholia, or the end of the Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fifth Lecture: How to Convene the Various Peoples (of Nature)?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two Leviathans, two cosmologies ¥ How to avoid war between the gods? ¥ A perilous diplomatic project ¥ The impossible convocation of a �people of nature� ¥ How to give negotiation a chance? ¥ On the conflict between science and religion ¥ Uncertainty about the meaning of the word �end� ¥ Comparing collectives in combat ¥ Doing without any natural religion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sixth Lecture: How (Not) to Put an End to the End of Times?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The fateful date of 1610 ¥ Stephen Toulmin and the scientific counter-revolution ¥ In search of the religious origin of �disinhibition� ¥ The strange project of achieving Paradise on Earth ¥ Eric Voegelin and the avatars of Gnosticism ¥ On an apocalyptic origin of climate skepticism ¥ From the religious to the terrestrial by way of the secular ¥ A �people of Gaia�? ¥ How to respond when accused of producing �apocalyptic discourse�\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Seventh Lecture: The States (of Nature) between War and Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The �Great Enclosure� of Caspar David Friedrich ¥ The end of the State of Nature ¥ On the proper dosage of Carl Schmitt ¥ �We seek to understand the normative order of the earth� ¥ on the difference between war and police work ¥ How to turn around and face Gaia? ¥ Human versus Earthbound ¥ Learning to identify the struggling territories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eighth Lecture: How to Govern Struggling (Natural) Territories?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the Theater of Negotiations, Les Amandiers, May 2015 ¥ Learning to meet without a higher arbiter ¥ Extension of the Conference of the Parties to Nonhumans ¥ Multiplication of the parties involved ¥ Mapping the critical zones ¥ Rediscovering the meaning of the State ¥ Laudato Si� ¥ Finally, facing Gaia ¥ �Earth, earth!� Works Cited","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404427403607,"sku":"9780745684338","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745684338.jpg?v=1730486428","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/facing-gaia-9780745684338","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}