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Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change

Risking it All

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.2 cm

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For students and thinkers interested in climate philosophy

Addresses climate change through philosophical insights

You will gain a new perspective on humanity's future

This book explores the intersection of Heidegger's philosophy, politics, and climate change.

The scale of some environmental problems, such as climate change and human overpopulation, exceed any one nation state and require either co-ordinated governance or a shift in the culture of modernity. Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change examines this crisis alongside Heidegger's ideas about technology and modernity. Heidegger suggests that refocusing on the primary questions that make it meaningful to be human - the question of Being - could create the means for alternative discourses that both challenge and sidestep the attempt for total surveillance and total control. He advocates recognising the problematic relationship humanity has with the environment and reinventing new trajectories of understanding ourselves and our planet. This book aims to properly integrate environment into philosophy and political theory, offering a constructive critique of modernity with some helpful suggestions for establishing a readiness for blue sky scenarios for the future. The book lays out the practical implications of Heidegger's ideas and engages with philosophy of technology, considering the constraints and the potentials of technology on culture and environment.
Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change and Climate Change and Philosophy
Climate Change and PhilosophyHeidegger, Politics and Climate Change

  • Title

    Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change

  • Author

    Dr Ruth Irwin

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    December 2011

  • Weight

    318g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781441197269

  • ISBN-10

    1441197265

  • Eden Code

    4639411