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Cosmologies of the Anthropocene - Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism (Hardcover)
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Cosmologies of the Anthropocene - Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism (Hardcover)
Series: Morality, Society and Culture
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This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind
and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in
the era of the Anthropocene. Arguing that matter, and, more
broadly, the natural world, has been misconceived since Descartes,
it explores the devastating impact that this has had in practice in
the West. As such, alternatives are needed, whether philosophical
ones such as those offered by figures such as Whitehead and Nagel,
or posthumanist ones such as those developed by Barad and Latour.
Drawing on recent anthropological work ignored by philosophers and
sociologists alike, the author considers a radical alternative
cosmology: animism understood as panpsychism in practice. This
understanding of mind and matter, of culture and nature, is then
turned against present-day posthumanist critiques of what the
Anthropocene amounts to, showing them up as philosophically
misguided, politically mute, and ethically wanting. A
ground-breaking reconceptualization of the natural world and our
treatment of it, Cosmologies of the Anthropocene will appeal to
scholars of sociology, social theory, philosophy and anthropology
with interests in our understanding of and relationship with
nature.
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