
The Antropocene and the Humanities
From climate change to a new age of sustainability
Carolyn Merchant(Author)
Academic Studies Press
Published on 14. December 2023
Book
Hardback
216 pages
979-8-88719-466-0 (ISBN)
Description
ENG
A wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences and the humanities. Using history, art, literature, religion, philosophy, ethics, and justice as the focal points, Merchant traces key figures and developments in the humanities throughout the Anthropocene era and explores how these disciplines might influence sustainability in the next century. Wide-ranging and accessible, this book from an eminent scholar in environmental history and philosophy argues for replacing the Age of the Anthropocene with a new Age of Sustainability.
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A wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences and the humanities. Using history, art, literature, religion, philosophy, ethics, and justice as the focal points, Merchant traces key figures and developments in the humanities throughout the Anthropocene era and explores how these disciplines might influence sustainability in the next century. Wide-ranging and accessible, this book from an eminent scholar in environmental history and philosophy argues for replacing the Age of the Anthropocene with a new Age of Sustainability.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Brighton
United States
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Laminated cover
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
471 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88719-466-0 (9798887194660)
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ENGCarolyn Merchant is the Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published nine single-authored books and four edited books. Her first book, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980, 2e 1990, 3e 2020) has been translated into French, Italian, German, (2 editions) Swedish, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese. Other books include Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture (2004, also a Kindle edition), Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World (2005, 2007), Autonomous Nature: Problems of Prediction and Control from Ancient Times to the Scientific Revolution (2016), Science and Nature: Past, Present, and Future (2016), Spare the Birds: George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society (Yale, 2016), The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a new Age of Sustainability (Yale, 2020). She has also published 109 articles and reviews in peer-reviewed journals.
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