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Sustainability in the Anthropocene - Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies (Paperback)
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Sustainability in the Anthropocene - Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies (Paperback)
Series: Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
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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 fourth section closes the book by
drawing some more general implications for ethics from the
intersection of the foregoing themes.
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