Nature As Event
The Lure of the Possible
Seiten
2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6933-2 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6933-2 (ISBN)
Didier Debaise brings Alfred North Whitehead's philosophies of nature to bear on the Anthropocene, creating a new theory of nature that does not recognize a divide between the human and nonhuman, a theory in which all organisms have the power to unleash potential into the world.
We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided the living from the inert, subjectivity from objectivity, the apparent from the real, value from fact, and the human from the nonhuman? Can the great oppositions that presided over the modern invention of nature still claim any cogency? In Nature as Event, Didier Debaise shows how new narratives and cosmologies are necessary to rearticulate that which until now had been separated. Following William James and Alfred North Whitehead, Debaise presents a pluralistic approach to nature. What would happen if we attributed subjectivity and potential to all beings, human and nonhuman? Why should we not consider aesthetics and affect as the fabric that binds all existence? And what if the senses of importance and value were no longer understood to be exclusively limited to the human?
We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided the living from the inert, subjectivity from objectivity, the apparent from the real, value from fact, and the human from the nonhuman? Can the great oppositions that presided over the modern invention of nature still claim any cogency? In Nature as Event, Didier Debaise shows how new narratives and cosmologies are necessary to rearticulate that which until now had been separated. Following William James and Alfred North Whitehead, Debaise presents a pluralistic approach to nature. What would happen if we attributed subjectivity and potential to all beings, human and nonhuman? Why should we not consider aesthetics and affect as the fabric that binds all existence? And what if the senses of importance and value were no longer understood to be exclusively limited to the human?
Didier Debaise is a permanent researcher at the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), director of the Research Center in Philosophy at the UniversitÉ Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the author and editor of several books in French.
Introduction 1
1. The Cosmology of the Moderns 3
2. A Universal Mannerism 39
3. The Intensification of Experience 77
Notes 87
Bibliography 99
Index 103
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Thought in the Act |
| Übersetzer | Michael Halewood |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-6933-8 / 0822369338 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-6933-2 / 9780822369332 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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