Nature and Value

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

Nature and Value

Edited by: Akeel Bilgrami
With contributions by: David Bromwich , Bina Gogineni , Nikolas Kompridis , Anthony Laden , Kyle Nichols , Joanna Picciotto , Robert Pollin , Jedediah Purdy , Sanjay Reddy , Carol Rovane , Jonathan Schell , James Hamilton Tully and Jan Zalasiewicz

https://doi.org/10.7312/bilg19462

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About this book

This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications. The essays together present a revaluation of the natural world with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time.

Author / Editor information

Akeel Bilgrami is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and a professor on the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. His Columbia University Press books include Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom? (2014) and Beyond the Secular West (2016).

Reviews

Paul Apostolidis, London School of Economics and Political Science:
It has been a genuine privilege and a pleasure to read this book. I learned a great deal from doing so and I fully expect that other readers will learn much as well. Nature and Value accomplishes something inestimably important by demonstrating how it is possible to juxtapose writings by scholars from a vast array of different disciplines and generate a conversation about climate change that is at once coherent and dynamic.

Charles Taylor, author of A Secular Age:
Our awareness of having entered the Anthropocene is still so recent that many of the issues, challenges, and dilemmas it poses are still underexplored. This admirable and inspiring book offers a number of converging guidelines that help us to see our predicament and to see it whole.

Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable:
An outstanding collection of essays in which some of the world's leading thinkers subject the fundamental presuppositions of contemporary society to rigorous scrutiny. Essential reading for those who are searching for fresh perspectives on the current human predicament.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Akeel Bilgrami Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
1. Nature and Value Jonathan Schell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Human Shadow Jonathan Schell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3. The Anthropocene and Global Warming: A Brief Update Jan Zalasiewicz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
4. The Extraordinary Strata of the Anthropocene Jan Zalasiewicz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
5. The Anthropocene Dating Problem: Disciplinary Misalignments, Paradigm Shifts, and the Possibility for New Foundations in Science Nichols Kyle and Bina Gogineni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
6. Disciplinary Variations on the Anthropocene: Temporality and Epistemic Authority. Response to Kyle Nichols and Bina Gogineni Nikolas Kompridis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
7. Value and Alienation: A Revisionist Essay on Our Political Ideals Akeel Bilgrami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
8. Equality and Liberty: Beyond a Boundary. Response to Akeel Bilgrami Sanjay G. Reddy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
9. Experimenting with Other People Joanna Picciotto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
10. The Green Growth Path to Climate Stabilization Robert Pollin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
11. All Too Human: Orienting Environmental Law in a Remade World Jedediah Britton-Purdy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
12. Life Sustains Life 1: Value, Social and Ecological James Tully Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
13. Life Sustains Life 2: The Ways of Reengagement with the Living Earth James Tully Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
14. The Value of Sustainability and the Sustainability of Value Anthony Simon Laden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
15. Varieties of Agency: Comment on Anthony Laden Carol Rovane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
16. Nonhuman Agency and Human Normativity Nikolas Kompridis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
17. Natural Piety and Human Responsibility David Bromwich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: May 5, 2020
ISBN: 9780231550901