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Sustainability in the Anthropocene

Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies
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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 forth section closes the book by drawing some more general implications for ethics from the intersection of the foregoing themes.

Author Biography:

Rόisín Lally is lecturer of philosophy at Gonzaga University.
Release date NZ
April 29th, 2019
Contributors
  • Contributions by Babette Babich
  • Contributions by Brendan Mahoney
  • Contributions by Cristina Pontes Bonfiglioli
  • Contributions by Dana S. Belu
  • Contributions by Don Ihde
  • Contributions by Galit Wellner
  • Contributions by Jan Kyrre Berg Friis
  • Contributions by Patricia Glazebrook
  • Contributions by Roisin Lally
  • Edited by Roisin Lally
Pages
250
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Dimensions
160x230x24
ISBN-13
9781498584227
Product ID
29779333

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