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We have forgotten how to think about limits. Most philosophical
approaches to the environment have focused primarily on the value
of the natural world, the status of anthropocentrism and the
Anthropocene, and the largely ethical questions of our impact on
the world. While fully acknowledging these concerns, this book
emphasizes the centrality of the confrontation between the
imperative of growth that has been present since the Enlightenment
and our belated rediscovery of limits. The expression "Limits to
Growth", the title of a famous book from 1972 by Donella H. Meadows
et al., may have passed into a common discourse, yet the notion of
limits itself remains insufficiently theorized, or even reflected
upon, in the current movement of environmental advocacy. Sometimes
it even seems as if there is an effort to avoid it. This book
argues that, on the contrary, we can only resolve the present
global challenges by confronting the question of limits and making
it central to our reflection. This entails discussing the long
history of thinking about limits in which Malthus is the most
infamous figure, but which also includes such major participants as
John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Ultimately, The Question of Limits
contends that the value of embracing limits extends beyond the
environment and offers the potential to become a transformative
social good. The Question of Limits will be of great interest to
students and scholars working at the intersection of environmental
studies, economics, intellectual history and philosophy.
We have forgotten how to think about limits. Most philosophical
approaches to the environment have focused primarily on the value
of the natural world, the status of anthropocentrism and the
Anthropocene, and the largely ethical questions of our impact on
the world. While fully acknowledging these concerns, this book
emphasizes the centrality of the confrontation between the
imperative of growth that has been present since the Enlightenment
and our belated rediscovery of limits. The expression "Limits to
Growth", the title of a famous book from 1972 by Donella H. Meadows
et al., may have passed into a common discourse, yet the notion of
limits itself remains insufficiently theorized, or even reflected
upon, in the current movement of environmental advocacy. Sometimes
it even seems as if there is an effort to avoid it. This book
argues that, on the contrary, we can only resolve the present
global challenges by confronting the question of limits and making
it central to our reflection. This entails discussing the long
history of thinking about limits in which Malthus is the most
infamous figure, but which also includes such major participants as
John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Ultimately, The Question of Limits
contends that the value of embracing limits extends beyond the
environment and offers the potential to become a transformative
social good. The Question of Limits will be of great interest to
students and scholars working at the intersection of environmental
studies, economics, intellectual history and philosophy.
Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence
of biopolitics in Europe from the mid- eighteenth to the
mid-nineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature,
political economy, and the still emergent sciences of life in that
historical moment, the essays collected here reopen the question of
how concepts of animal, vegetable, and human life, among other
biological registers, had an impact on the Enlightenment project of
thinking politics and economics as a joint enterprise. The volume's
contributors consider politics, economics, and the biological as
distinct, semi-autonomous spheres whose various combinations
required inventive, sometimes incomplete, acts of conceptual
mediation, philosophical negotiation, disciplinary intervention, or
aesthetic representation.
Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence
of biopolitics in Europe from the mid- eighteenth to the
mid-nineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature,
political economy, and the still emergent sciences of life in that
historical moment, the essays collected here reopen the question of
how concepts of animal, vegetable, and human life, among other
biological registers, had an impact on the Enlightenment project of
thinking politics and economics as a joint enterprise. The volume's
contributors consider politics, economics, and the biological as
distinct, semi-autonomous spheres whose various combinations
required inventive, sometimes incomplete, acts of conceptual
mediation, philosophical negotiation, disciplinary intervention, or
aesthetic representation.
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