After the Anthropocene, 1st ed. 2019 Green Republicanism in a Post-Capitalist World Environmental Politics and Theory Series
Auteur : Fremaux Anne
The environmental crisis is the most prominent challenge humanity has ever had to battle with, and humanity is currently failing. The Anthropocene?or so called ?age of humans??is indeed a period when the survival of humanity has never been so much at risk. This book locates itself in the field of critical green political theory. Fremaux's analysis of the current environmental crisis calls for us to embrace radical shifts in our modes of being; or, in other words, socially progressive innovations that will be described within the unique framework of "Green Republicanism." In offering a constructive and emancipatory delineation of what could be considered an ecological civilization that is respectful of its natural environment and social differences, this book describes how to shift from an ?arrogant speciesism? and materialistic lifestyle to a post-anthropocentric ecological humanism focusing on the ?good life? within ecological limits. This new political regime calls for a radical reinvention of our societies, a decentering of the humans within our metaphysical worldview, and a withdrawal of the capitalist technosphere at the benefit of the biosphere. It will require a new economic paradigm that replaces the unsustainable capitalist logic of growth by sustainable degrowth and steady economics. Rooted in ethical thinking and political philosophy, this book seeks to offer a concrete roadmap of how sustainable societies can be fostered.
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
‘Wild law’ and the legal standing for natureConclusion
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
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
Date de parution : 04-2019
Ouvrage de 316 p.
14.8x21 cm
