John A. Smith, Anna Wilson

Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction (eBook, PDF)

A New and Urgent Philosophy for Complexity in the Social Sciences

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring critical philosophy towards a more ecologically-informed paradigm, the book aims to recognise that what has rightly come to be called The Anthropocene Extinction is not, and cannot be treated as simply a scientific fact but is rather a socio-political and ecological dispute of immense complexity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040050293
• Artikelnr.: 70327736

Autorenporträt

John A. Smith has taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London; Lancaster University; and Greenwich University. He is a sociologist and a painter trained at the Royal College of Art. He is interested in sociological theory, philosophy and visual culture, and has published in all of these areas.

Anna Wilson is a transdisciplinary researcher with a background in nuclear physics, currently working in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART 1: A radical ecological philosophy
1 Reforming the philosophy of the Enlightenment: Chance as a second-order
phenomenon and post-humanism
2 Auto-eco-organisation as ontology: The sciences of emergence
3 Auto-exo-reference as epistemology: A biosemiotics approach
4 Materialist neo-Darwinism and its discontents: Debates in the modern
synthesis; the ecology of physical and semantic causality; end-directedness
and its consequences for an ecological social science
5 The evolutionary ecology of the social: The adaptive unconscious, the
mammalian emotions, the significance of approximation end-directed
dynamics; social systems as differentiated, adaptive dynamics
PART 2: The Anthropocene extinction
6 Summary of Part 1 and methodology for Part 2
7 Three case studies
8 The Anthropocene extinction: Explicit evidence and implicit epistemology
9 Global governance and its discontents "in practice": Radically
incompatible perspectives: political, economic, cultural and scientific
conflicts
10 In place of a conclusion: Imperatives and ambiguities
Bibliography
Index