Overview
- Critically analyses problems in our relationship with the world and overcoming it through social transformation
- Understands the human adventure with the challenge of mutation in the Anthropocene epoch
- Proposes a new anthropological conceptualization - humanity rethought through biology and politics
Part of the book series: Anthropocene – Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Tensions of Politics in the Anthropocene
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A Consolidation of Policy Requiring an Anthropological Shift
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Conviviality as a Paradigm of Political Education
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Keywords
- Understanding of the Anthropocene
- Politics in the Anthropocene
- Critical theory anthropocene
- Frankfurt School in the 21st century
- Ecological thinking
- Humanity in the Biosphere
- Sustainable education
- Prospective anthropology
- Political theory of the Anthropocene
- Coexistence between humans and non-humans
- political ambivalences of the Anthropocene
- anthropocene public debate
- anthropological mutation
- post-Promethean togetherness
- Conviviality political education
- convivial citizenship in the Anthropocene
- Critical education
- earth and education
- anthropocene earth education
- Utopian education
About this book
This volume, which is rooted in biogeophysical studies, addresses conceptions of political action in the Anthropocene and the tension between a desire to accomplish the Promethean project of modernity and a post-Promethean approach. This work explores the idea of an anthropological mutation of political consolidation from a “post-Promethean togetherness”, to creating the capacity to act together. The political thinking of the human condition developed by Hannah Arendt is important here as a resource for thinking about humanity in terms of human adventure. This has three dimensions: hubris, the world and coexistence referring respectively to the logic of profit of the homo oeconomicus, the logic of responsibility of the homo collectivus and the logic of the hospitality of the homo religatus.
The intellectual and political attitude outlined in this book is an extension of critical theory: the work also puts forward acritique of what poses a problem in our relationship to the world and suggests how to overcome it, the ultimate goal being social transformation. The author propose an uprising and an anthropological consolidation of politics based on the revitalization that is brought about by the sharing of a conviviality both between humans and with what is non-human. The identification of conviviality as an educational paradigm to survive the Anthropocene gives us the much needed reason for hope despite this heritage of the Anthropocene. In addition to Arendtian thinking, this critical theory for the Anthropocene draws on the political thinking of several contemporary authors including Maurice Bellet, Hartmut Rosa, Andreas Weber, Dominique Bourg, and Christian Arnsperger. This volume is of interest to researchers in the Anthropocene.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nathanaël Wallenhorst is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the Catholic University of the West (UCO). He is Doctor of Educational Sciences and Doktor der Philosophie (first international co-supervision PhD), and Doctor of Environmental Sciences and Doctor in Political Science (second international co-supervision PhD). He is the author of twenty books on politics, education, and anthropology in the Anthropocene. He is the leading contributor of the collections “Anthropocene – Humanities and Social sciences” (with Prof Christoph Wulf). His passion: trying to listen to the future.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Critical Theory for the Anthropocene
Authors: Nathanaël Wallenhorst
Series Title: Anthropocene – Humanities and Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37738-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37737-2Published: 16 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37740-2Due: 17 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37738-9Published: 15 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-6343
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6351
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 462
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy, general, Earth Sciences, general, Climate, general, Political Theory