| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) : illustrations |
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Continuum studies in Continental philosophy |
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Continuum studies in continental philosophy.
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Globalization -- Globalization and the environment -- Climate change and the crisis of philosophy -- Social conscience and global market -- Categories, environmental indicators and the enlightenment market -- Environmentalism -- Pessimistic realism and optimistic total management -- Population statistics and modern governmentality -- Neopragmatism in late modernity -- Technological enframing -- Heidegger; the origin and the finitude of civilization -- Technology and the kultur of late modernity -- Embodied subjectivity and the critique of modernity |
| Summary |
The scale of some environmental problems, such as climate change and human overpopulation, exceed any one nation state and require either co-ordinated governance or a shift in the culture of modernity. Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change examines this crisis alongside Heidegger's ideas about technology and modernity. Heidegger suggests that refocusing on the primary questions that make it meaningful to be human - the question of Being - could create the means for alternative discourses that both challenge and sidestep the attempt for total surveillance and total control. He advocates recogn |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-209) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
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| SUBJECT |
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 fast |
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Heidegger, Martin. swd |
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Ontology.
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Human beings.
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Environmentalism.
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Climatic changes.
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Technology.
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Climate Change
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Technology
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Humans
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ontology (metaphysics)
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Homo sapiens (species)
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climate change.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Climatic changes
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Environmentalism
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Human beings
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Ontology
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Technology
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Politik
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Klimaänderung
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441174802 |
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144117480X |
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9781472546821 |
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1472546822 |
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