Facing Gaia : eight lectures on the new climatic regime / Bruno Latour ; translated by Catherine Por...
Facing Gaia : eight lectures on the new climatic regime / Bruno Latour ; translated by Catherine Por...
Facing Gaia : eight lectures on the new climatic regime / Bruno Latour ; translated by Catherine Porter.
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Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2017.
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G 2018/0720
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English
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vii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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On the instability of the (notion of) nature -- How not to (de- )animate nature -- Gaia, a (finally secular) figure for nature -- The anthropocene and the destruction of (the image of) the globe -- How to convene the various peoples (of nature)? -- How (not) to put an end to the end of times? -- The...
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Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2017.
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2017.
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"The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of Nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of Nature have been continuously developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world. The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have enter...
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Facing Gaia : eight lectures on the new climatic regime / Bruno Latour ; translated by Catherine Porter.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/0720
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74VKVGEvkExb
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9780745684338
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570.1
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991024153618002626
