Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century.
Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century.
This book proposes that 21st-century political debates in AI, bioethics, and environmental policy are best understood as occurring along a new political spectrum: a zero-sum conflict between the intrinsic value of nature and technological progress.
This book proposes that 21st-century political debates in AI, bioethics, and environmental policy are best understood as occurring along a new political spectrum: a zero-sum conflict between the intrinsic value of nature and technological progress.
The traditional topics of the "e;philosophy of nature"e; - space, time, causality, the structure of the universe - are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories.
Drawing on ideas from across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, James Tyner considers how the advent of the Anthropocene and and the coming age of artificial intelligence challenges us to rethink our notions of violence.
Drawing on ideas from across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, James Tyner considers how the advent of the Anthropocene and and the coming age of artificial intelligence challenges us to rethink our notions of violence.
First providing a new and thought-provoking interpretation of the Spinoza Controversy of around 1800, and the Controversy’s reprise in the 1920s, this work then makes a compelling case for the Controversy’s ongoing vital relevance.
First providing a new and thought-provoking interpretation of the Spinoza Controversy of around 1800, and the Controversy’s reprise in the 1920s, this work then makes a compelling case for the Controversy’s ongoing vital relevance.
The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin's notion of the turn of time.
The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin's notion of the turn of time.
Early Modern Ecologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature.
Early Modern Ecologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature.
Collective Liberation and Work That Reconnects How do we create group spaces that are truly safe, inclusive, and transformativeespecially when patterns of harm still show up within them?
Collective Liberation and Work That Reconnects How do we create group spaces that are truly safe, inclusive, and transformativeespecially when patterns of harm still show up within them?
The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature offers an overview of the different ways diverse writers in the United States have represented the nonhuman world and human relationships with it from before the nation's founding to the present.
The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature offers an overview of the different ways diverse writers in the United States have represented the nonhuman world and human relationships with it from before the nation's founding to the present.
The idea of the book is to show that ecology is not a subdiscipline within the natural sciences, but rather holds great significance for all areas of our lives.
The idea of the book is to show that ecology is not a subdiscipline within the natural sciences, but rather holds great significance for all areas of our lives.
