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Deep Time, Dark Times - On Being Geologically Human (Paperback)
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Deep Time, Dark Times - On Being Geologically Human (Paperback)
Series: Thinking Out Loud
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The new geological epoch we call the Anthropocene is not just a
scientific classification. It marks a radical transformation in the
background conditions of life on Earth, one taken for granted by
much of who we are and what we hope for. Never before has a species
possessed both a geological-scale grasp of the history of the Earth
and a sober understanding of its own likely fate. Our situation
forces us to confront questions both philosophical and of real
practical urgency. We need to rethink who "we" are, what agency
means today, how to deal with the passions stirred by our
circumstances, whether our manner of dwelling on Earth is open to
change, and, ultimately, "What is to be done?" Our future, that of
our species, and of all the fellow travelers on the planet depend
on it. The real-world consequences of climate change bring new
significance to some very traditional philosophical questions about
reason, agency, responsibility, community, and man's place in
nature. The focus is shifting from imagining and promoting the
"good life" to the survival of the species. Deep Time, Dark Times
challenges us to reimagine ourselves as a species, taking on a
geological consciousness. Drawing promiscuously on the work of
Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and other
contemporary French thinkers, as well as the science of climate
change, David Wood reflects on the historical series of
displacements and de-centerings of both the privilege of the Earth,
and of the human, from Copernicus through Darwin and Freud to the
declaration of the age of the Anthropocene. He argues for the need
to develop a new temporal phronesis and to radically rethink who
"we" are in respect to solidarity with other humans, and
responsibility for the nonhuman stakeholders with which we share
the planet. In these brief, lively chapters, Wood poses a range of
questions centered on our individual and collective political
agency. Might not human exceptionalism be reborn as a sort of
hyperbolic responsibility rather than privilege?
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