Shock of the Anthropocene - The Earth, History and Us

Zusatztext 51112824 Informationen zum Autor Christophe Bonneuil is a historian at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and edits the Anthropocène series for Editions du Seuil. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz , formerly a lecturer at Imperial College, London, is now a historian at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Klappentext The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent "environmental awareness," about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch Zusammenfassung Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the "Anthropocene"

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christophe Bonneuil, Christophe Fressoz Bonneuil, Bonneuil Christophe, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Fressoz Jean-Baptiste
• Con la collaborazione di: David Fernbach (Traduzione)
• Editore: Verso
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781784785031
• ISBN: 978-1-78478-503-1
• Pagine: 320
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, HISTORY / Modern / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Applied ecology, Social & political philosophy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Social impact of environmental issues, Impact of science and technology on society, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)