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Heidegger, politics and climate change : risking it all /

The scale of some environmental problems, such as climate change and human overpopulation, exceed any one nation state and require either co-ordinated governance or a shift in the culture of modernity. Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change examines this crisis alongside Heidegger's ideas about...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Irwin, Ruth, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2008.
Colección:Continuum studies in continental philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The scale of some environmental problems, such as climate change and human overpopulation, exceed any one nation state and require either co-ordinated governance or a shift in the culture of modernity. Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change examines this crisis alongside Heidegger's ideas about technology and modernity. Heidegger suggests that refocusing on the primary questions that make it meaningful to be human - the question of Being - could create the means for alternative discourses that both challenge and sidestep the attempt for total surveillance and total control. He advocates recogn.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-209) and index.
ISBN:9781441174802
144117480X
9781472546821
1472546822