Bilgrami Nature and Value

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55090-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

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. The essays together present a revaluation of the natural world with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bilgrami, Akeel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bromwich, David

Gogineni, Bina

Kompridis, Nikolas

Laden, Anthony

Nichols, Kyle

Picciotto, Joanna

Pollin, Robert

Purdy, Jedediah

Reddy, Sanjay

Rovane, Carol

Schell, Jonathan

Tully, James Hamilton

Zalasiewicz, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, by Akeel Bilgrami
Acknowledgments
1. Nature and Value, by Jonathan Schell
2. The Human Shadow, by Jonathan Schell
3. The Anthropocene and Global Warming: A Brief Update, by Jan Zalasiewicz
4. The Extraordinary Strata of the Anthropocene, by Jan Zalasiewicz
5. The Anthropocene Dating Problem: Disciplinary Misalignments, Paradigm Shifts, and the Possibility for New Foundations in Science, by Kyle Nichols and Bina Gogineni
6. Disciplinary Variations on the Anthropocene: Temporality and Epistemic Authority. Response to Kyle Nichols and Bina Gogineni, by Nikolas Kompridis
7. Value and Alienation: A Revisionist Essay on Our Political Ideals, by Akeel Bilgrami
8. Equality and Liberty: Beyond a Boundary. Response to Akeel Bilgrami, by Sanjay G. Reddy
9. Experimenting with Other People, by Joanna Picciotto
10. The Green Growth Path to Climate Stabilization, by Robert Pollin
11. All Too Human: Orienting Environmental Law in a Remade World, by Jedediah Britton-Purdy
12. Life Sustains Life 1: Value, Social and Ecological, by James Tully
13. Life Sustains Life 2: The Ways of Reengagement with the Living Earth, by James Tully
14. The Value of Sustainability and the Sustainability of Value, by Anthony Simon Laden
15. Varieties of Agency: Comment on Anthony Laden, by Carol Rovane
16. Nonhuman Agency and Human Normativity, by Nikolas Kompridis
17. Natural Piety and Human Responsibility, by David Bromwich
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Akeel Bilgrami is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and a professor on the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. His Columbia University Press books include Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom? (2014) and Beyond the Secular West (2016).