Zoltán Boldizsár Simon: The Epochal Event

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Beschreibung

This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers through technologies that entangle the human and the natural worlds, human beings have become agents of a new kind of transformative event. The ongoing sixth mass extinction of species, the prospect of a technological singularity, and the potential crossing of planetary boundaries are expected to trigger transformations on a planetary scale that we deem catastrophic and try to avoid. In making sense of these prospects, Simon¿s book sketches the rise of a new epochal thinking, introduces the epochal event as an emerging category of a renewed historical thought, and makes the case for the necessity of bringing together the work of the human and the natural sciences in developing knowledge of a more-than-human world.

Über den Autor

Zoltán Boldizsár Simon is assistant professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and research fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany

Zusammenfassung

Brings the Anthropocene debate in dialogue with historical thinking

Uses a transdisciplinary approach, bridging the humanities and natural sciences

Appeals to scholars and students from a wide range of disciplines, including history, philosophy, environmental humanities, anthropology, cultural studies, political theory, and the life sciences

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Prelude to the Age of the Epochal.- 2. A Perplexing Appeal to History.- 3. The Entangled Human-Technological-Natural World.- 4. Epochal Thinking in the Shadow of Anthropogenic Catastrophe.- 5. Historical Event: A Narrow Category.- 6. The Epochal Event.- Conclusion.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Inhalt:	xiii 143 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030478070
ISBN-10:	3030478076
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Simon, Zoltán Boldizsár
Auflage:	1st ed. 2020
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Maße:	210 x 148 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.07.2021
Gewicht:	0,216 kg

Artikel-ID: 120302645