Thinking Nature: An Essay in Negative Ecology

Moving between ancient and modern sources, philosophy and theology, and science and popular culture, Sean McGrath offers a genuinely new reflection on what it means to be human in an era of climate change, mass extinction and geoengineering. Engaging with contemporary thinkers in eco-criticism, including Timothy Morton, Bruno Latour and Slavoj Zizek, McGrath argues for a distinctive role for the human being in the universe: the human being is nature come to full consciousness. McGrath's compelling case for a new Anthropocenic humanism is founded on a reverence for nature, a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a naturalism that is not at the expense of the human.

Author: Sean J. McGrath
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 08/31/2021
Series: New Perspectives in Ontology
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781474449274