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Ecologie / nature / Biodiversité / Animaux / Climat , Environnement
THE ANTHROPOCENE AS A COSMOLOGICAL TURN [ENG]
Le 31 janvier 2021
Gratuit
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm [Paris Time UTC+1]
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm [Paris Time UTC+1]
Hôtel 71
As urgent as it may be, the discussion of global warming as the greatest ever threat to human civilization is but one example that the overall ‘climate’ on Earth is changing to such an extent that survival is at risk. This issue should be understood within the wider context of the Anthropocene. Since it forms an overarching framework for understanding the significance of climate change, population growth, environmental strains, the Covid pandemic and other global Grand Challenges, the Anthropocene is arguable among the most important and wide-ranging questions of our time.
Heralded as a new epoch distinguishing itself from all foregoing eons in the history of the Earth, the Anthropocene forms the common denominator for a wide array of realizations that an all-decisive threshold in the history of the Earth and humankind is being crossed: Human activities are gaining overarching importance and beginning to play a dominant role in key processes of the earth system. This alters the material conditions of subsistence for human beings so radically that the ground on which humankind has stood is quaking. Our very existence and being, position and role in the world, and our perception of ourselves are at stake. A previously unexperienced, intimate and precarious relationship between humankind and the Earth is established with the Anthropocene that implies a new conception of the order of the world and of the role of humans within it.
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Sverre Raffnsøe (Danemark) is Professor of Philosophy at Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School and Editor-in-Chief of Foucault Studies. In 2020-21, he is fellow at the Collegium de Lyon and associated with École Urbaine de Lyon. He is the author of books and articles on management philosophy, philosophical aesthetics, social philosophy, the history of the humanities and recent French and German philosophy. Recent books include Michel Foucault: A Research Companion. Philosophy as Diagnosis of the Present (Palgrave 2016) and Philosophy of the Anthropocene: The Human Turn (Palgrave 2016). Recent articles are: Philosophical Practice as Self-modification: An Essay on Michel Foucault’s Critical Engagement with Philosophy (Foucault Studies 2018) and What is Critique? Critical Turns in the Age of Criticism (Outlines. Critical Practice Studies 18:2, 2017).
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Sverre Raffnsøe (Danemark) is Professor of Philosophy at Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School and Editor-in-Chief of Foucault Studies. In 2020-21, he is fellow at the Collegium de Lyon and associated with École Urbaine de Lyon. He is the author of books and articles on management philosophy, philosophical aesthetics, social philosophy, the history of the humanities and recent French and German philosophy. Recent books include Michel Foucault: A Research Companion. Philosophy as Diagnosis of the Present (Palgrave 2016) and Philosophy of the Anthropocene: The Human Turn (Palgrave 2016). Recent articles are: Philosophical Practice as Self-modification: An Essay on Michel Foucault’s Critical Engagement with Philosophy (Foucault Studies 2018) and What is Critique? Critical Turns in the Age of Criticism (Outlines. Critical Practice Studies 18:2, 2017).
language available for this sequence : English.
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