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Author : Roger D. Masters
Release : 1989-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Nature of Politics by : Roger D. Masters
Download or read book The Nature of Politics written by Roger D. Masters. This book was released on 1989-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates politics to the fields of evolutionary biology, social psychology, linguistics, and game theory and looks at the influence of language on politics
Author : Bruno Latour
Release : 2009-07-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 963/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Politics of Nature by : Bruno Latour
Download or read book Politics of Nature written by Bruno Latour. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: “Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks.” Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. Thus, his book proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society—and the constitution, in its place, of a collective, a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced. In a critique of the distinction between fact and value, Latour suggests a redescription of the type of political philosophy implicated in such a “commonsense” division—which here reveals itself as distinctly uncommonsensical and in fact fatal to democracy and to a healthy development of the sciences. Moving beyond the modernist institutions of “mononaturalism” and “multiculturalism,” Latour develops the idea of “multinaturalism,” a complex collectivity determined not by outside experts claiming absolute reason but by “diplomats” who are flexible and open to experimentation.
Author : Jedediah Purdy
Release : 2015-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 223/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis After Nature by : Jedediah Purdy
Download or read book After Nature written by Jedediah Purdy. This book was released on 2015-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Artforum Best Book of the Year A Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the Year Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are questions for politics—a politics that does not yet exist. After Nature develops a politics for this post-natural world. “After Nature argues that we will deserve the future only because it will be the one we made. We will live, or die, by our mistakes.” —Christine Smallwood, Harper’s “Dazzling...Purdy hopes that climate change might spur yet another change in how we think about the natural world, but he insists that such a shift will be inescapably political... For a relatively slim volume, this book distills an incredible amount of scholarship—about Americans’ changing attitudes toward the natural world, and about how those attitudes might change in the future.” —Ross Andersen, The Atlantic
Author : Peter K. Hatemi
Release : 2011-09-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 113/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Man Is by Nature a Political Animal by : Peter K. Hatemi
Download or read book Man Is by Nature a Political Animal written by Peter K. Hatemi. This book was released on 2011-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Man Is by Nature a Political Animal, Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political behavior. Focusing on the theoretical, methodological, and empirical frameworks of a variety of biological approaches to political attitudes and preferences, the authors consider a wide range of topics, including the comparative basis of political behavior, the utility of formal modeling informed by evolutionary theory, the genetic bases of attitudes and behaviors, psychophysiological methods and research, and the wealth of insight generated by recent research on the human brain. Through this approach, the book reveals the biological bases of many previously unexplained variances within the extant models of political behavior. The diversity of methods discussed and variety of issues examined here will make this book of great interest to students and scholars seeking a comprehensive overview of this emerging approach to the study of politics and behavior.
Author : Laura Ephraim
Release : 2018
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 81X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Who Speaks for Nature? by : Laura Ephraim
Download or read book Who Speaks for Nature? written by Laura Ephraim. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. The Science Question in Political Theory -- Earth to Arendt -- Vico's World of Nature -- Descartes and Democracy -- Hobbes's Worldly Geometry of Politics -- Epilogue. Science and Politics at the End of the World
