After Nature : : A Politics for the Anthropocene / / Jedediah Purdy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Purdy, Jedediah,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Année de publication: 2015
• Édition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Langue: English
• Description matérielle: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Prologue --; Introduction --; 1 An Unequal Terrain --; 2. God’s Avid Gardeners --; 3. Nature as Teacher --; 4. Natural Utopias --; 5. A Conservationist Empire --; 6. A Wilderness Passage into Ecology --; 7. Environmental Law in the Anthropocene --; 8. What Kind of Democracy? --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Résumé: Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674915671; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674915671
• Accès: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jedediah Purdy.

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purd...