Cosmologies of the Anthropocene: Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism

ISBN-13: 9780367182922 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 270 str.

Arne Johan Vetlesen

Opis

This book explores the misconception of nature in the West since the birth of modern philosophy and the devastating impact that this has had in practice. Drawing on recent anthropological work, it proposes a radical alternative cosmology to make sense of mind and matter, and to challenge present-day posthumanist critiques of the Anthropocene.

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction: From Anthropocentrism to the Anthropocene  1. Getting it Right about Mind, Nature, and Cosmos  2. Panpsychism as "Inner Physics": Whitehead’s Project  3. Prospects and Pitfalls of Agential Realism   4. Animism – Panpsychism in Practice  5. Agency Posthumanist Style: Proliferation or Decimation?

O autorze

Arne Johan Vetlesen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of A Philosophy of Pain; Evil and Human Agency: Understanding Collective Evildoing; Perception, Empathy, and Judgment; and The Denial of Nature: Environmental Philosophy in the Era of Global Capitalism.