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Jedediah Purdy
(2015)
After Nature
A Politics for the Anthropocene
Jedediah Purdy
(2015)
Sprog: Engelsk
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- Udgiver: Harvard University Press (September 2015)
- ISBN: 9780674915671
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- Hardback: 336 sider
- Udgiver: Harvard University Press (September 2015)
- ISBN: 9780674368224
Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are questions for politics--a politics that does not yet exist. After Nature develops a politics for this post-natural world.
Jedediah Purdy begins with a history of how Americans have shaped their landscapes. He explores the competing traditions that still infuse environmental law and culture--a frontier vision of settlement and development, a wilderness-seeking Romanticism, a utilitarian attitude that tries to manage nature for human benefit, and a twentieth-century ecological view. These traditions are ways of seeing the world and humans' place in it. They are also modes of lawmaking that inscribe ideal visions on the earth itself. Each has shaped landscapes that make its vision of nature real, from wilderness to farmland to suburbs--opening some new ways of living on the earth while foreclosing others.
The Anthropocene demands that we draw on all these legacies and go beyond them. With human and environmental fates now inseparable, environmental politics will become either more deeply democratic or more unequal and inhumane. Where nothing is pure, we must create ways to rally devotion to a damaged and ever-changing world.
Chapter 2. God's Avid Gardeners Locke and the Commoners' Terrain Savages and Slaves: A New Unequal Terrain Trader Imagination versus Settler Imagination A Road Not Taken
Chapter 3. Nature as Teacher A Pause for Flowers: Philip Freneau Learning from the Land: John Quincy Adams Training the Eye: The Hudson River School
Chapter 4. Natural Utopias A Choice of Inheritances Arguing over Concord: Transcendentalism and Its Uses Making the Sierra Club's Nature A Romantic Cultural Politics The Sierra Club and Public-Lands Politics How Nature's Utopia Became Less Radical Natural Utopias A Walden for the Anthropocene
Chapter 5. A Conservationist Empire Progressive Management and the Idea of Conservation The Roots of Conservation Social and Moral Reform The Conservation of Civic Virtue The Humanism of Socialized Consumption Conservation, Eugenics, and Racism
Chapter 6. A Wilderness Passage into Ecology Ecology's Darker Origins Opening a New Door Ecology: From New Dawn to Chronic Crisis Intergenerational Legal Interpretation in the Ecological Age
Chapter 7. Environmental Law in the Anthropocene From Wilderness to Cultivation: Food, Agriculture, and the Value of Work Animals and the Ethics of Encounters across Species Climate Change: From Failure to New Standards of Success The Breakdown of Familiar Ideas Respect for Failure
Chapter 8. What Kind of Democracy? Ecological Economics Democracy and Post-Humanism Exclusion and Misanthropy Notes Acknowledgments Index