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Facing Gaia (Paperback)
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The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century
profoundly renewed our understanding of Nature. For the last three
centuries new ideas of Nature have been continuously developed by
theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences
of the material world. The situation is even more unstable today,
now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented
scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is best described as a
new climatic regime. And a new regime it certainly is, since the
many unexpected connections between human activity and the natural
world oblige every one of us to reopen the earlier notions of
Nature and redistribute what had been packed inside. So the
question now arises: what will replace the old ways of looking at
Nature? This book explores a potential candidate proposed by James
Lovelock when he chose the name "Gaia" for the fragile, complex
system through which living phenomena modify the Earth. The fact
that he was immediately misunderstood proves simply that his
readers have tried to fit this new notion into an older frame,
transforming Gaia into a single organism, a kind of giant
thermostat, some sort of New Age goddess, or even divine
Providence. In this series of lectures on "natural religion" Bruno
Latour argues that the complex and ambiguous figure of Gaia offers,
on the contrary, an ideal way to disentangle the ethical,
political, theological, and scientific aspects of the now obsolete
notion of Nature. He lays the groundwork for a future collaboration
among scientists, theologians, activists, and artists as they, and
we, begin to adjust to the new climatic regime.
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