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Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
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What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretense at sharing a common future with the rest of the world. Hence their flight offshore and their massive investment in climate change denial.
The Left has been slow to turn its attention to this new situation. It is still organized along an axis that goes from investment in local values to the hope of globalization and just at the time when, everywhere, people dissatisfied with the ideal of modernity are turning back to the protection of national or even ethnic borders.
This is why it is urgent to shift sideways and to define politics as what leads toward the Earth and not toward the global or the national. Belonging to a territory is the phenomenon most in need of rethinking and careful redescription; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge. Bringing us down to earth is the task of politics today.
Book Details
- Publisher: Polity Press
- Publish Date: Nov 13rd, 2018
- Pages: 140
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.50in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9781509530571
- Categories: • Political
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Helen De Cruz is a philosophy professor.
Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime. I only began to read him a few years ago when the deep prejudice against him I got from my background began to wane. He has a very interesting later strand of ecophilosophy in his writing which I'm exploring now
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Los Angeles Review of Books
"Brilliantly mind-bending"
The New York Times
"Concise and wise"
LRB
What people are saying
Helen De Cruz is a philosophy professor.
Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime. I only began to read him a few years ago when the deep prejudice against him I got from my background began to wane. He has a very interesting later strand of ecophilosophy in his writing which I'm exploring now
An experimental hub for developing the practices, skills, and tools needed to build autonomy. 585 Woodward Ave. Contribute: https://t.co/UfI7ZFhieD
Please join our Research Group this Sunday at 5pm to discuss Bruno Latour's short book Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2017): https://t.co/2ESdDc2HSw DM us for text. https://t.co/wUwwresQTL