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Beschreibung
The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years.

How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent "environmental awareness," about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch
The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years.

How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent "environmental awareness," about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch
Zusammenfassung
Christophe Bonneuil is a historian at the CNRS and edits the 'Anthropocène' series for Éditions du Seuil. His publications include Une autre histoire des 'Trentes glorieuses'; Modernisation, contestations et pollutions dans la France d'après-guerre, and Sciences, techniques et société.
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science and technology, previously at Imperial College London, now based in Paris at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is the author of The Happy Apocalypse (forthcoming)and The Shock of the Anthropocene (with C. Bonneuil).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781784785031
ISBN-10: 1784785032
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 4805
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bonneuil, Christophe
Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste
Übersetzung: Fernbach, David
Hersteller: Verso
Verso UK
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Maße: 201 x 130 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Christophe Bonneuil (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2017
Gewicht: 0,252 kg
Artikel-ID: 103766672

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