After the Anthropocene: Green Republicanism in a Post-Capitalist World

ISBN-13: 9783030111199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 316 str.

Anne Fremaux

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements                                                                                                                                                

List of Figures and Tables                                                                                                                                   

List of Abbreviations                                                                                                                                           

Series Editor Foreword                                                                                                                                       

Preface                                                                                                                                                                       

1.     Introduction                                                                                                                                                     

The Anthropocene or living in times of pluri-disasters                                                                            

Neoliberalism vs liberalism? What liberalism shares with green republicanism.                         

Green constitutional republicanism                                                                                                              

A genuine post-modern political economy                                                                                                

A green republican roadmap                                                                                                                           

2.     A Critical Examination of the Naturalistic Narrative of the Anthropocene                              

Introduction                                                                                                                                                               

A New ‘Age of Humans’? Uncertainties and Indeterminacy in Post-Normal Time                        

Who is the Anthropos of the Anthropocene?                                                                                         

Neoliberal and uneven Anthropocene: geopower, geoengineering and scientific stewardship 

Conclusion                                                                                                                                                                

3.     The ‘Return of Nature’ in The Capitalocene: Against the Ecomodernist Version of the ‘Good Anthropocene’                        

Introduction                                                                                                                                                            

The ‘end of nature’?                                                                                                                                             

EES, Ecomodernism and geoengineering: the (hyper)modern narrative of mastery and control              

The return of nature (nature as ‘non-identity’) in the Anthropocene                                              

Conclusion                                                                                                                                                                

4.     For a Post-Anthropocentric Socio-Nature Relationship in the Anthropocene                      

Introduction: Anthropocene’s anthropocentrism                                                                                    

Arrogant Anthropocentrism, Weak Anthropocentrism, and Post-Anthropocentrism: Prometheanism, Pragmatism, and Regulative horizon                                                                                                            

Post-anthropocentrism and the defence of the intrinsic value of nature                                     

‘Wild law’ and the legal standing for nature                                                                                           

Conclusion                                                                                                                                                             

5.     A new Green Political Economy  for the Anthropocene                                                               

Introduction                                                                                                                                                          

Strong substitutability versus strong sustainability                                                                              

Why decoupled growth? Because ‘It’s development, stupid!’                                                          

A reconstructive agenda: for a new ethos and a new green political economy                         

Conclusion                                                                                                                                                             

6.     A Post-Liberal Green Republican Democracy for the Anthropocene                                      

Introduction                                                                                                                                                          

Relational Freedom, flourishing, and ecological citizenship                                                               

Republican democratic institutions and environmental justice                                                        

Green republican constitutionalism and the social green state                                                        

Conclusion                                                                                                                                                             

7.     Conclusion                                                                                                                                                       

Summary                                                                                                                                                                

Final words: the need for a counter-Anthropocene narrative                                                          

 

O autorze

Anne Fremaux completed her PhD at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland. Her publications include La nécessité d'une écologie radicale. La pensée à l'épreuve des problèmes environnementaux (2011) and L’Ère du levant (2016).

Blurb

The environmental crisis is the most prominent challenge humanity has ever had to battle with, and humanity is currently failing. The Anthropocene—or so called ‘age of humans’—is indeed a period when the survival of humanity has never been so much at risk. This book locates itself in the field of critical green political theory. Fremaux's analysis of the current environmental crisis calls for us to embrace radical shifts in our modes of being; or, in other words, socially progressive innovations that will be described within the unique framework of "Green Republicanism." In offering a constructive and emancipatory delineation of what could be considered an ecological civilization that is respectful of its natural environment and social differences, this book describes how to shift from an ‘arrogant speciesism’ and materialistic lifestyle to a post-anthropocentric ecological humanism focusing on the ‘good life’ within ecological limits. This new political regime calls for a radical reinvention of our societies, a decentering of the humans within our metaphysical worldview, and a withdrawal of the capitalist technosphere at the benefit of the biosphere. It will require a new economic paradigm that replaces the unsustainable capitalist logic of growth by sustainable degrowth and steady economics. Rooted in ethical thinking and political philosophy, this book seeks to offer a concrete roadmap of how sustainable societies can be fostered.