Description
Book SynopsisThis book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications. The essays together present a revaluation of the natural world with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time.
Trade ReviewAn outstanding collection of essays in which some of the world's leading thinkers subject the fundamental presuppositions of contemporary society to rigorous scrutiny. Essential reading for those who are searching for fresh perspectives on the current human predicament. -- Amitav Ghosh, author of
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the UnthinkableOur awareness of having entered the Anthropocene is still so recent that many of the issues, challenges, and dilemmas it poses are still underexplored. This admirable and inspiring book offers a number of converging guidelines that help us to see our predicament and to see it whole. -- Charles Taylor, author of
A Secular AgeIt has been a genuine privilege and a pleasure to read this book. I learned a great deal from doing so and I fully expect that other readers will learn much as well.
Nature and Value accomplishes something inestimably important by demonstrating how it is possible to juxtapose writings by scholars from a vast array of different disciplines and generate a conversation about climate change that is at once coherent and dynamic. -- Paul Apostolidis, London School of Economics and Political Science
Table of ContentsPreface, by Akeel Bilgrami
Acknowledgments
1. Nature and Value, by Jonathan Schell
2. The Human Shadow, by Jonathan Schell
3. The Anthropocene and Global Warming: A Brief Update, by Jan Zalasiewicz
4. The Extraordinary Strata of the Anthropocene, by Jan Zalasiewicz
5. The Anthropocene Dating Problem: Disciplinary Misalignments, Paradigm Shifts, and the Possibility for New Foundations in Science, by Kyle Nichols and Bina Gogineni
6. Disciplinary Variations on the Anthropocene: Temporality and Epistemic Authority. Response to Kyle Nichols and Bina Gogineni, by Nikolas Kompridis
7. Value and Alienation: A Revisionist Essay on Our Political Ideals, by Akeel Bilgrami
8. Equality and Liberty: Beyond a Boundary. Response to Akeel Bilgrami, by Sanjay G. Reddy
9. Experimenting with Other People, by Joanna Picciotto
10. The Green Growth Path to Climate Stabilization, by Robert Pollin
11. All Too Human: Orienting Environmental Law in a Remade World, by Jedediah Britton-Purdy
12. Life Sustains Life 1: Value, Social and Ecological, by James Tully
13. Life Sustains Life 2: The Ways of Reengagement with the Living Earth, by James Tully
14. The Value of Sustainability and the Sustainability of Value, by Anthony Simon Laden
15. Varieties of Agency: Comment on Anthony Laden, by Carol Rovane
16. Nonhuman Agency and Human Normativity, by Nikolas Kompridis
17. Natural Piety and Human Responsibility, by David Bromwich
List of Contributors
Index
