Eco-Nihilism - The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse

Informationen zum Autor Wendy Lynne Lee is professor of philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext Eco-Nihilism: The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse argues that there are no versions of conquest capital compatible with the fact of a finite planet, and that the pursuit of growth is destined to not only exhaust our planetary resources, but generate profound social injustice and geopolitical violence in its pursuit. Zusammenfassung Eco-Nihilism: The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse argues that there are no versions of conquest capital compatible with the fact of a finite planet! and that the pursuit of growth is destined to not only exhaust our planetary resources! but generate profound social injustice and geopolitical violence in its pursuit. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: The Planet Doesn't Need Human Beings; Human Beings Need the PlanetChapter 1: Ecological Apocalypse, The Pathologies of Capital, Human Chauvinism-And the Improbable Desirable FutureChapter 2: Human Chauvinism, The Geopolitics of Climate Change, And the Pop-Cultural Ecocentric SolutionChapter 3: The Nihilistic Rhetoric of Climate Change Denial, Neoliberal Anxieties, and The Death of Science-Seven TakesChapter 4: Globalization in the Circulatory System of Capital and the Death of the Nation State, The Fully Capitalized Planet, Five TakesChapter 5: Salvation Capitalism: Steady State Sustainability, Techno-Utopia, and Planetary Metastasis-Six TakesChapter 6: The Reclamation of Human-Centeredness and an Eco-Feminist Systems Approach to the Desirable Future

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Lynne Lee, Lee Wendy Lynne
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2017
• EAN: 9780739176887
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7688-7
• No. of pages: 470
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, Social impact of environmental issues, Human Geography, Development and environmental geography