Ontological Politics in a Disposable World: The New Mastery of Nature

ISBN-13: 9780367336097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 268 str.

Luigi Pellizzoni

Opis

This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropriate, ’enhance’ and destroy material reality have developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature and our relationship with it have emerged, together with new forms of power.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The New Mastery of Nature; Chapter 2 Nature, Government and the Ontology of the Present; Chapter 3 The Ontological Turn in Social Theory; Chapter 4 From Darwin to Heidegger:; Chapter 5 Towards a Critical Humanism;

O autorze

Luigi Pellizzoni is Associate Professor of Environmental and Political Sociology at the University of Trieste, Italy and co-editor of Neoliberalism and Technoscience.