Mastery of non-mastery in the age of meltdown
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Taussig Michael T. ;
- ISBN : 978-0-226-68458-1, 0-226-68458-X, 978-0-226-69867-0, 0-226-69867-X
- Sujets : Catastrophes écologiques -- Philosophie, Écologie humaine, AnthropologieCivilisation
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (220 p.), : Ill. en noir, couv. ill. en coul., 22 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
Notes
La ressource est également disponible en version électronique ; Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. p. [207]-213. Index
Résumé
'For a long time, we humans have excelled in mimicking nature with the goal of exploiting it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what it would take to change ourselves so as to save our world. Acknowledging the possibility of collapse and our all-too-human impotence in the face of accelerating disaster, this book is not solely a reflection on our tragic condition but also a theoretical effort to reckon with those human faculties that have fed our ambition for dominance over nature. At stake is an ultimate undoing of our sense of control--a 'mastery of non-mastery.' Animated by the urgency of a planet approaching meltdown, Taussig captures our moment, and all its attendant mythologies, with luminescent clarity'