The Anthropocene and the Humanities

From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability

The Anthropocene and the Humanities
Carolyn Merchant
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h210 x 140mm - 232pg
23 Jun 2020 US
9780300244236
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A wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences and the humanities From noted environmental historian Carolyn Merchant, this book focuses on the original concept of the Anthropocene first proposed by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in their foundational 2000 paper. It undertakes a broad investigation into the ways in which science, technology, and the humanities can create a new and compelling awareness of human impacts on the environment. Using history, art, literature, religion, philosophy, ethics, and justice as the focal points, Merchant traces key figures and developments in the humanities throughout the Anthropocene era and explores how these disciplines might influence sustainability in the next century. Wide-ranging and accessible, this book from an eminent scholar in environmental history and philosophy argues for replacing the Age of the Anthropocene with a new Age of Sustainability.
"A remarkably clear and accessible study of multiple dimensions of the environmental crisis and their effects on the humanities."-J.R. McNeill, coauthor of The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945"A text of great importance that investigates how science, technology, and the humanities can create a new and compelling awareness of human impact on earth."-Mary Evelyn Tucker, coauthor of Journey of the Universe"Carolyn Merchant has written a pithy, well-rounded introduction to what the environmental humanities can offer in moving our planet toward an Age of Sustainability." -Edward Melillo, author of Strangers on Familiar Soil"Carolyn Merchant provides a useful interdisciplinary primer on the supreme challenges of living responsibly in the era on continual climate change. Her tone is both analytical and personal, and she offers a vision for an ecologically just future."-Jacob Darwin Hamblin, author of Arming Mother Nature: the Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
Carolyn Merchant is professor emerita of environmental history, philosophy, and ethics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author or editor of twelve books, including her landmark The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution.
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ISBN-13: 9780300244236
Published: 23 Jun 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 22mm
Pages: 232

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