9781498584227-1498584225-Sustainability in the Anthropocene: Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies (Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology)

Sustainability in the Anthropocene: Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies (Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology)

ISBN-13: 9781498584227
ISBN-10: 1498584225
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Róisín Lally
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Hardcover 250 pages
Category: Technology
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ISBN-13: 9781498584227
ISBN-10: 1498584225
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Róisín Lally
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Hardcover 250 pages
Category: Technology

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Sustainability in the Anthropocene: Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies (Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology) (ISBN-13: 9781498584227 and ISBN-10: 1498584225), written by authors Róisín Lally, was published by Lexington Books in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Technology books. You can easily purchase or rent Sustainability in the Anthropocene: Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies (Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Technology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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We are facing an environmental crisis that some say is ushering a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, one that threatens not only a great deal of life on the planet but also our understanding of who we are and our relation to the natural world. In the face of this crisis it has become clear that we need a more sustainable culture. In fact the language of sustainability has become pervasive in our culture and has deeply ingrained itself in our understanding of what living a good life would entail. “Sustainability,” however, is a contested word, and it carries with it, often implicitly and unacknowledged, deep philosophical claims that are entangled with all kinds of assumptions and power relations, some of them very problematic. This book attempts to set this urgent goal of sustainability free from its more reductive and harmful interpretations and to thereby apply a more thoughtful environmental ethics to current and emerging technologies, particularly those involving reproduction and the harnessing of energy that dominate our elemental relations to sun and air, wind and water, earth and forest.

The book is divided into 4 sections: (1) Sustainability: A Contested Term, (2) Sustainability and Renewable Technologies: Sun, Air, Wind, Water, (3) Sustainability and Design, and (4) Sustainability and Ethics. The first section sets the context for our studies and opens a space for thinking sustainability in a more thoughtful way than is often the case in contemporary discussions. The next two sections are the heart of our contribution to postphenomenology and technoscience, and the essays, here, turn to concrete examinations of particular technologies and questions of technological design in the light of our environmental crisis. The fourth section closes the book by drawing some more general implications for ethics from the intersection of the foregoing themes.

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