Main entry:

Purdy, Jedediah, 1974-

Title & Author:

After nature : a politics for the anthropocene / Jedediah Purdy.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Description:

326 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- An unequal terrain -- God's avid gardeners -- Nature as teacher -- Natural utopias -- A conservationist empire -- A wilderness passage into ecology -- Environmental law in the anthropocene -- What kind of democracy?
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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 question for politics--a politics that does not yet exist. 'After Nature' develops a politics for the post-natural world. Jedediah Purdy begins with a history of how Americans have shaped their landscapes. He explores the competing traditions that still infuse environmental law and culture--a frontier vision of settlement and development, a wilderness-seeking Romanticism, a utilitarian attitude that tries to manage nature for human benefit, and a twentieth-century ecological view. These traditions are ways of seeing the world and humans' place in it. They are also modes of lawmaking that inscribe ideal visions on the earth itself. Each has shaped landscapes that make its vision of nature real, from wilderness to farmland to suburbs--opening some new ways of living on the earth while foreclosing others. The Anthropocene demands that we draw on all these legacies and go beyond them. With human and environmental fates now inseparable, environmental politics will become either more deeply democratic or more unequal and inhumane. Where nothing is pure, we must create ways to rally devotion to a damaged and ever-changing world."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780674368224 (alk. paper)
0674368223 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Nature Effect of human beings on.
Human beings Effect of environment on.
Human ecology.
Philosophical anthropology.
Êtres humains Influence sur la nature.
Êtres humains Influence de l'environnement.
Écologie humaine.
Anthropologie philosophique.
human ecology.
philosophical anthropology.
Natur
Umweltschutz
Mensch
Anthropogener Einfluss
Wilderness.
Environmental protection.
Ecology.
Philosophy.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290541
Call No.: BIB 233590
Status: Available