Ecological metapolitics
Subtitle: Badiou and the anthropocene
By: by Am Johal
Series: Think Media EGS media philosophy series; EGS Media philosophy series (Think Media)
Publisher: Atropos Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781940813929
Subjects: Environmental ethics; Philosophy; French Philosophy
Description: "Ecological Metapolitics, for the first time, attempts to realize a synthesis between the problem of ecology and some fundamental concepts of Alain Badiou's proper philosophy. Ecology cannot be the first problem. Drawing from Badiou's work in Ethics, Metapolitics, Manifesto for Philosophy, Being and Event and others, Ecological Metapolitics attempts to consider the possibility of a new, modern tradition emanating from the Event, in light of the ecological question today. The book considers death, mourning, democratic materialism, the passion for the real, resistance and technological fixes such as geo-engineering. Ecological Metapolitics ultimately serves as a critique of environmental ethics, argued through Badiou's philosophical work." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-175).