Philosophy of the anthropocene : the human turn / Sverre Raffnsøe, professor of philosophy, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

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Philosophy of the anthropocene : the human turn / Sverre Raffnsøe, professor of philosophy, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

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9781137526700 (electronic book)
113752670X (electronic book)
9781137526717 (electronic book)
1137526718 (electronic book)
9781349707508
1349707503
9781137526694
1137526696

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

©2016

English

1 online resource (xx, 75 pages).

GN33 .R34 2016eb

301.01

The Anthropocene is heralded as a new epoch distinguishing itself from all foregoing eons in the history of the Earth. It is characterized by the overarching importance of the human species in a number of respects, but also by the recognition of human dependence and precariousness. A critical human turn affecting the human condition is still in the process of arriving in the wake of an initial Copernican Revolution and Kant's ensuing second Copernican Counter-revolution. Within this landscape, issues concerning the human - its finitude, responsiveness, responsibility, maturity, auto-affection and relationship to itself - appear rephrased and re-accentuated as decisive probing questions. In this book Sverre Raffnsøe explores how the change has ramifications for the kinds of knowledge that can be acquired concerning human beings and for the human sciences as a study of human existential beings in the world.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-75).

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