Rethinking Nature in the Anthropocene
Edited by Jon Wittrock and Richard Polt
How has thinking about nature contributed to the onset of the Anthropocene? Should we conceive of nature in new ways in this new era? If so, how would such changes in our thinking be reflected in practice? Drawing together a diversity of opinions and philosophical approaches, Telos 177 examines the conceptual roots of our contemporary dilemma in the emergence of early modern philosophy, the limits of contemporary normative discourses in relation to ecological predicaments, the emergence of new configurations of social practices, and the possibility of thinking nature and the human beyond both naturalism and humanism.
Introduction: The Nature of Nature and the Politics of Fate
Jon Wittrock and Richard Polt
“Anthropogenic Effects” in Genesis 1–11 and Francis Bacon
Martin D. Yaffe
Anthropocene Crises and the Origin of Modernity
Timothy Sean Quinn
Gynocentric Bio-Logics: Anthropocenic Abjectification and Alternative Knowledge Traditions
Trish Glazebrook
Enlightenment, Dialectic, and the Anthropocene: Bruised Nature and the Residues of Freedom
Sabine Wilke
Sacred Nature and the Nature of the Sacred: Rethinking the Sacred in the Anthropocene
Jon Wittrock
Ecological Finitude as Ontological Finitude: Radical Hope in the Anthropocene
Fernando Flores and B. Scot Rousse
The Voices of Nature: Toward a Polyphonic Conception of Philosophy
Thomas M. Alexander
Philosophy’s Homecoming
Michael Marder
Critical Theory of the Contemporary
Election 2016, Environmental Nationalism, and Palestinian Shame
Russell A. Berman
Trump’s Triumph: The Failure of Clinton’s Progressive Politics and the Demise of Liberal World Order
Adrian Pabst
Trump and the Party of Lincoln
Kiron Skinner
The Joker Takes the White House, Crashes the End of History
David Pan
On the Road to Marrakesh: A Politics of Mitigation or Mystification for Global Climate Change?
Timothy W. Luke
Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities
Cary Nelson
