Anne Fremaux completed her PhD at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, Ireland. Her publications include La nécessité d'une écologie radicale. La pensée à l'épreuve des problèmes environnementaux (2011) and L'Ère du levant (2016).

Provides a critical approach of mainstream theories of the Anthropocene

Develops a new postanthropocentric/ecocentric approach based on Earth Jurisprudence

Offers a critical standpoint of ecomodernism

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Series Editor Foreword

Preface

1. Introduction

The Anthropocene or living in times of pluri-disasters

Neoliberalism vs liberalism? What liberalism shares with green republicanism.

Green constitutional republicanism

A genuine post-modern political economy

A green republican roadmap

2. A Critical Examination of the Naturalistic Narrative of the Anthropocene

Introduction

A New `Age of Humans¿? Uncertainties and Indeterminacy in Post-Normal Time

Who is the Anthropos of the Anthropocene?

Neoliberal and uneven Anthropocene: geopower, geoengineering and scientific stewardship

Conclusion

3. The `Return of Nature¿ in The Capitalocene: Against the Ecomodernist Version of the `Good Anthropocene¿

Introduction

The `end of nature¿?

EES, Ecomodernism and geoengineering: the (hyper)modern narrative of mastery and control

The return of nature (nature as `non-identity¿) in the Anthropocene

Conclusion

4. For a Post-Anthropocentric Socio-Nature Relationship in the Anthropocene

Introduction: Anthropocene¿s anthropocentrism

Arrogant Anthropocentrism, Weak Anthropocentrism, and Post-Anthropocentrism: Prometheanism, Pragmatism, and Regulative horizon

Post-anthropocentrism and the defence of the intrinsic value of nature

Conclusion

5. A new Green Political Economy for the Anthropocene

Introduction

Strong substitutability versus strong sustainability

Why decoupled growth? Because `It¿s development, stupid!¿

A reconstructive agenda: for a new ethos and a new green political economy

Conclusion

6. A Post-Liberal Green Republican Democracy for the Anthropocene

Introduction

Relational Freedom, flourishing, and ecological citizenship

Republican democratic institutions and environmental justice

Green republican constitutionalism and the social green state

Conclusion

7. Conclusion

Summary

Final words: the need for a counter-Anthropocene narrative