Wendy Lynne Lee

Eco-Nihilism

The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse

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Produktbeschreibung

Eco-Nihilism: The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse argues that there are no versions of conquest capital compatible with the fact of a finite planet, and that the pursuit of growth is destined to not only exhaust our planetary resources, but generate profound social injustice and geopolitical violence in its pursuit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 911g
• ISBN-13: 9780739176887
• ISBN-10: 0739176889
• Artikelnr.: 47114583

Autorenporträt

Wendy Lynne Lee is professor of philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Planet Doesn't Need Human Beings; Human Beings Need the Planet
Chapter 1: Ecological Apocalypse, The Pathologies of Capital, Human
Chauvinism-And the Improbable Desirable Future
Chapter 2: Human Chauvinism, The Geopolitics of Climate Change, And the
Pop-Cultural Ecocentric Solution
Chapter 3: The Nihilistic Rhetoric of Climate Change Denial, Neoliberal
Anxieties, and The Death of Science-Seven Takes
Chapter 4: Globalization in the Circulatory System of Capital and the Death
of the Nation State, The Fully Capitalized Planet, Five Takes
Chapter 5: Salvation Capitalism: Steady State Sustainability,
Techno-Utopia, and Planetary Metastasis-Six Takes
Chapter 6: The Reclamation of Human-Centeredness and an Eco-Feminist
Systems Approach to the Desirable Future