Heidegger, politics, and climate change
Subtitle: risking it all
By: Ruth Irwin.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781847063809
Subjects: Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976; Ontology; Human beings; Environmentalism; Climatic changes; Technology
Description: Ruth Irwin lays out the practical implications of Heidegger's ideas and engages with philosophy of technology, considering the constraints and the potentials of technology on culture and environment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Globalization; title: Globalization and the environment; title: Climate change and the crisis of philosophy; title: Social conscience and global market; title: Categories, environmental indicators, and the enlightenment market; title: Environmentalism; title: Pessimistic realism and optimistic total management; title: Population statistics and modern governmentality; title: Pragmatism; title: Technological enframing; title: Heidegger, the origin and the finitude of civilization; title: Technology and the kultur of late modernity; title: Embodied subjectivity and the critique of modernity.