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EAN : 9782359251081
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 400
Size : 140 x 205 mm
FACING GAIA

Release date : 08/10/2015
Latour explores what it could mean to live at the epoch of the Anthropocene when what was until now a mere décor for human history is becoming the principal actor. He confronts head on the controversial figure of Gaia, that is, the Earth understood not as system but as what... Latour explores what it could mean to live at the epoch of the Anthropocene when what was until now a mere décor for human history is becoming the principal actor. He confronts head on the controversial figure of Gaia, that is, the Earth understood not as system but as what has a history, what mobilizes everything in the same geostory. Gaia is not Nature, nor is it a deity. In order to face a secular Gaia, we need to extract ourselves from the amalgam of Religion and Nature. It is a new form of political power that has to be explored through a renewed attempt at political theology composed of those three concepts: demos, theos and nomos. It is only once the multiplicity of people in conflicts for the new geopolitics of the Anthropocene is recognized, that the ‘planetary boundaries’ might be recognized as political delineations and the question of peace addressed. Neither Nature nor Gods bring unity and peace. ‘The people of Gaia’, the Earthbound might be the ‘artisans of peace’.
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EAN : 9782359251081
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 400
Size : 140 x 205 mm
La Découverte