Agostino Cera
A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene: Discovering Terra Incognita
A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene: Discovering Terra Incognita
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Discovering Terra Incognita explores the Anthropocene as a potential métarécit of our age, representing the most faithful expression of the current Zeitgeist. It establishes that human agency as technological omni-power is a "global geophysical force" capable of altering the Earth system's destiny. The book argues that the Anthropocene is something radically new, giving rise to reification of nature, anthropocentrism, and an unpredictable ethical paradox.
Format: Hardback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 15 January 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books
A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene: Discovering Terra Incognita presents the Anthropocene as more than a geological epoch, but rather as the potential metarecit of our age and the most faithful expression of the current Zeitgeist. Insofar as the Anthropocene establishes that the human agency as technological omnipower represents a "global geophysical force" capable of altering the destiny of the Earth system, the coming of this new epoch shows that technology now embodies the subject of both history and nature. This technology achieves the status of an integral epochal phenomenon: the new environment for human life. Agostino Cera traces how the "technisches Zeitalter" (age of technology) outlined by twentieth-century philosophical thought emerged out of the Anthropocene and suggests that a more appropriate name for this planetary framework Technocene. The book develops along four basic directions: epistemological, ontological, anthropological, and ethical. It argues that the Anthropocene is something radically new, a terra incognita or an "epistemic hyperobject with a (geo-)historical barycenter," giving rise to: 1) an unprecedented form of reification of nature (“pet-ification of nature”); 2) an unexpected version of anthropocentrism (“Aidosean Prometheanism”), and 3) an unpredictable ethical paradox (“paradox of omni-responsibility”).
Weight: 490g
Dimension: 237 x 158 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793630810
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