Sustainability in the Anthropocene: Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1498584241 ISBN 13 : 9781498584241

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2021

Synopsis

We are facing an environmental crisis that some say is ushering a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, one that threatens not only a great deal of life on the planet but also our understanding of who we are and our relation to the natural world. In the face of this crisis it has become clear that we need a more sustainable culture. In fact the language of sustainability has become pervasive in our culture and has deeply ingrained itself in our understanding of what living a good life would entail. "Sustainability," however, is a contested word, and it carries with it, often implicitly and unacknowledged, deep philosophical claims that are entangled with all kinds of assumptions and power relations, some of them very problematic. This book attempts to set this urgent goal of sustainability free from its more reductive and harmful interpretations and to thereby apply a more thoughtful environmental ethics to current and emerging technologies, particularly those involving reproduction and the harnessing of energy that dominate our elemental relations to sun and air, wind and water, earth and forest.


The book is divided into 4 sections: (1) Sustainability: A Contested Term, (2) Sustainability and Renewable Technologies: Sun, Air, Wind, Water, (3) Sustainability and Design, and (4) Sustainability and Ethics. The first section sets the context for our studies and opens a space for thinking sustainability in a more thoughtful way than is often the case in contemporary discussions. The next two sections are the heart of our contribution to postphenomenology and technoscience, and the essays, here, turn to concrete examinations of particular technologies and questions of technological design in the light of our environmental crisis. The fourth section closes the book by drawing some more general implications for ethics from the intersection of the foregoing themes.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Róisín Lally is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, USA. Drawing on the traditions of philosophy of technology, phenomenology, and new materialism, she has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters at the intersection of philosophy of the environment, feminism, ethics, and leadership.

Jan Kyrre Berg Friis is course manager of theory of science at Copenhagen University.

Don Ihde is distinguished professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Stony Brook University.

Tricia Glazebrook is professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs and affiliate professor in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Washington State University.

Galit Wellner is a post-doctoral researcher at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498584241
• ISBN 13: 9781498584241
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Éditeur: Lally Róisín
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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