Nature and Value - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231194633 ISBN 13 : 9780231194631

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This 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.

A distinguished list of scholars take up a broad range of questions regarding the relations between the human subject and its natural environment: when and how the concept of nature gave way to the concept of natural resources; the genealogy of the concept of nature through political economy, theology, and modern science; the idea of the Anthropocene; the prospects for green growth; and the deep alienation of human beings in the modern period from both nature and each other. By engaging with a wide range of scholarship, they ultimately converge on a common outlook that is both capacious and original. The essays together present a revaluation of the natural world that seeks to reshape political and ethical ideals and practice with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time.

Nature and Value features widely known scholars in a broad swath of disciplines, ranging from philosophy, politics, and political economy to geology, law, literature, and psychology. They include Jonathan Schell, David Bromwich, James Tully, Jedediah Purdy, Robert Pollin, Jan Zalasiewicz, Carol Rovane, Sanjay Reddy, Joanna Picciotto, Anthony Laden, Nikolas Kompridis, Bina Gogineni, Kyle Nichols, and the editor, Akeel Bilgrami.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Akeel Bilgrami (PhD, Philosophy, Chicago) is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and faculty member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He is the author of Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (Harvard, 2014) and Self-Knowledge and Resentment (Harvard, 2006), among other titles, and he is the editor of several books, including Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? (Columbia, 2015) and Beyond the Secular West (Columbia, 2016); he is also the editor of the series Columbia Themes in Philosophy. His interests include philosophy of mind and language, political philosophy, and moral psychology.

Nikolas Kompridis (PhD, Philosophy, York) is Research Professor in Philosophy and Political Thought and Director of the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought (Bloomsbury, 2014), Philosophical Romanticism (Routledge, 2006), and Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory Between Past and Future (MIT, 2006).

Robert Pollin is Dinstinguished Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst and Co-Director of Political Economy Research Institute. He is the author of Back To Full Employment (MIT Press, 2012) and A Measure Of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States (Cornell University Press, 2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231194633
• ISBN 13: 9780231194631
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Bilgrami Akeel
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