After Nature After Nature

After Nature

A Politics for the Anthropocene

    • £22.99
    • £22.99

Publisher Description

An Artforum Best Book of the Year
A Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the Year


After Nature argues that we will deserve the future only because it will be the one we made. We will live, or die, by our mistakes.” —Christine Smallwood, Harper’s

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.

“Dazzling…Purdy hopes that climate change might spur yet another change in how we think about the natural world, but he insists that such a shift will be inescapably political…For a relatively slim volume, this book distills an incredible amount of scholarship—about Americans’ changing attitudes toward the natural world, and about how those attitudes might change in the future.”
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2015
1 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Harvard University Press
SIZE
1.1
MB
Blessed Unrest Blessed Unrest
2007
Wendell Berry: Essays 1993-2017 (LOA #317) Wendell Berry: Essays 1993-2017 (LOA #317)
2019
Moral Ground Moral Ground
2011
Facing Gaia Facing Gaia
2017
What Are People For? What Are People For?
2010
Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse
2009
For Common Things For Common Things
1999
Being America Being America
2003
This Land Is Our Land This Land Is Our Land
2021
Democratic Vistas Democratic Vistas
2008
The Meaning of Property The Meaning of Property
2010