Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

by Bruno Latour

Book Overview

The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world. The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is best described...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745684343
• ISBN13: 9780745684345
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"