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Philosophy of the Anthropocene: The Human Turn

Philosophy of the Anthropocene: The Human Turn

Raffnsøe, Sverre

Hardcover

PhilosophyAnthropologyGeneral Science

ISBN10: 1137526696
ISBN13: 9781137526694
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 5 2016
Pages: 75
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Anthropocene is heralded as a new epoch distinguishing itself from all foregoing eons in the history of the Earth. It is characterized by the overarching importance of the human species in a number of respects, but also by the recognition of human dependence and precariousness. A critical human turn affecting the human condition is still in the process of arriving in the wake of an initial Copernican Revolution and Kant's ensuing second Copernican Counter-revolution. Within this landscape, issues concerning the human - its finitude, responsiveness, responsibility, maturity, auto-affection and relationship to itself - appear rephrased and re-accentuated as decisive probing questions. In this book Sverre Raffns e explores how the change has ramifications for the kinds of knowledge that can be acquired concerning human beings and for the human sciences as a study of human existential beings in the world.

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