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100 1 _aLatour, Bruno
245 1 0 _aFacing gaia :
_beight lectures on the new climatic regime
_cBy Bruno Latour
260 _aCambridge :
_bPolity Press,
_c©2017
300 _avii, 327 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _t1. On the instability of the (notion of) nature
505 _t2. How not to (de- )animate nature
505 _t3. Gaia, a (finally secular) figure for nature
505 _t4. The Anthropocene and the destruction of (the image of) the globe
505 _t5. How to convene the various peoples (of nature)?
505 _t6. How (not) to put an end to the end of times?
505 _t7. The states (of nature) between war and peace
505 _t8. How to govern struggling (natural) territories?
520 _a"The 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. The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is best described as a new climatic regime. And a new regime it certainly is, since the many unexpected connections between human activity and the natural world oblige every one of us to reopen the earlier notions of Nature and redistribute what had been packed inside. So the question now arises: what will replace the old ways of looking at Nature? This book explores a potential candidate proposed by James Lovelock when he chose the name "Gaia" for the fragile, complex system through which living phenomena modify the Earth. The fact that he was immediately misunderstood proves simply that his readers have tried to fit this new notion into an older frame, transforming Gaia into a single organism, a kind of giant thermostat, some sort of New Age goddess, or even divine Providence. In this series of lectures on "natural religion", Bruno Latour argues that the complex and ambiguous figure of Gaia offers, on the contrary, an ideal way to disentangle the ethical, political, theological, and scientific aspects of the now obsolete notion of Nature. He lays the groundwork for a future collaboration among scientists, theologians, activists, and artists as they, and we, begin to adjust to the new climatic regime"--
650 0 _aGaia hypothesis
650 0 _aPhilosophy of nature
650 0 _aNature in literature.
650 0 _aClimatic changes
650 0 _aPhilosophical anthropology
700 1 _aPorter, Catherine
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