Sustainability in the Anthropocene

Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Phenomenology, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Cover of the book Sustainability in the Anthropocene by Cristina Pontes Bonfiglioli, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, Don Ihde, Stony Brook University, Babette Babich, Patricia Glazebrook, Róisín Lally, Dana S. Belu, Brendan Mahoney, Galit Wellner, Daniel Bradley, Thomas M. Jeannot, Lars Botin, Lexington Books
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Author: Cristina Pontes Bonfiglioli, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, Don Ihde, Stony Brook University, Babette Babich, Patricia Glazebrook, Róisín Lally, Dana S. Belu, Brendan Mahoney, Galit Wellner, Daniel Bradley, Thomas M. Jeannot, Lars Botin ISBN: 9781498584234
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: April 29, 2019
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Cristina Pontes Bonfiglioli, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, Don Ihde, Stony Brook University, Babette Babich, Patricia Glazebrook, Róisín Lally, Dana S. Belu, Brendan Mahoney, Galit Wellner, Daniel Bradley, Thomas M. Jeannot, Lars Botin
ISBN: 9781498584234
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: April 29, 2019
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

We are facing an environmental crisis that some say is ushering a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, one that threatens not only a great deal of life on the planet but also our understanding of who we are and our relation to the natural world. In the face of this crisis it has become clear that we need a more sustainable culture. In fact the language of sustainability has become pervasive in our culture and has deeply ingrained itself in our understanding of what living a good life would entail. “Sustainability,” however, is a contested word, and it carries with it, often implicitly and unacknowledged, deep philosophical claims that are entangled with all kinds of assumptions and power relations, some of them very problematic. This book attempts to set this urgent goal of sustainability free from its more reductive and harmful interpretations and to thereby apply a more thoughtful environmental ethics to current and emerging technologies, particularly those involving reproduction and the harnessing of energy that dominate our elemental relations to sun and air, wind and water, earth and forest.

The book is divided into 4 sections: (1) Sustainability: A Contested Term, (2) Sustainability and Renewable Technologies: Sun, Air, Wind, Water, (3) Sustainability and Design, and (4) Sustainability and Ethics. The first section sets the context for our studies and opens a space for thinking sustainability in a more thoughtful way than is often the case in contemporary discussions. The next two sections are the heart of our contribution to postphenomenology and technoscience, and the essays, here, turn to concrete examinations of particular technologies and questions of technological design in the light of our environmental crisis. The fourth section closes the book by drawing some more general implications for ethics from the intersection of the foregoing themes.

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We are facing an environmental crisis that some say is ushering a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, one that threatens not only a great deal of life on the planet but also our understanding of who we are and our relation to the natural world. In the face of this crisis it has become clear that we need a more sustainable culture. In fact the language of sustainability has become pervasive in our culture and has deeply ingrained itself in our understanding of what living a good life would entail. “Sustainability,” however, is a contested word, and it carries with it, often implicitly and unacknowledged, deep philosophical claims that are entangled with all kinds of assumptions and power relations, some of them very problematic. This book attempts to set this urgent goal of sustainability free from its more reductive and harmful interpretations and to thereby apply a more thoughtful environmental ethics to current and emerging technologies, particularly those involving reproduction and the harnessing of energy that dominate our elemental relations to sun and air, wind and water, earth and forest.

The book is divided into 4 sections: (1) Sustainability: A Contested Term, (2) Sustainability and Renewable Technologies: Sun, Air, Wind, Water, (3) Sustainability and Design, and (4) Sustainability and Ethics. The first section sets the context for our studies and opens a space for thinking sustainability in a more thoughtful way than is often the case in contemporary discussions. The next two sections are the heart of our contribution to postphenomenology and technoscience, and the essays, here, turn to concrete examinations of particular technologies and questions of technological design in the light of our environmental crisis. The fourth section closes the book by drawing some more general implications for ethics from the intersection of the foregoing themes.

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