After Nature
Author | : Jedediah Purdy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2015-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674368224 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674368223 |
Rating | : 4/5 (223 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis After Nature by : Jedediah Purdy
Download or read book After Nature written by Jedediah Purdy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.