ISBN:
9781509559473
,
9781509559466
Language:
English
Pages:
v, 103 Seiten
Edition:
English edition
Uniform Title:
Comment habiter la terre
DDC:
194
Keywords:
Latour, Bruno
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Latour, Bruno Interviews
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Latour, Bruno
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2000-2099
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Philosophers France
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Philosophy, French
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Global environmental change
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Nature Effect of human beings on
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Political ecology
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Philosophers Interviews
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Philosophical anthropology
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Changement global (Environnement)
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Êtres humains - Influence sur la nature
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Écologie politique
;
Philosophes - France - Entretiens
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Anthropologie philosophique
;
philosophical anthropology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
;
Philosophers
;
Philosophical anthropology
;
Philosophy, French
;
Interviews
;
France
Abstract:
In a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intrinsic part of modern life. We have now come to realize that all life depends on a thin skin of our planet that is only few kilometres thick - what scientists call the 'critical zone'. Our capacity to continue to live on a planet we are transforming is now at risk and if we wish to survive as a species, we must put an end to the mechanisms of destruction, rethink our connection to living beings, and face head-on the confrontation between the extractivists who are exploiting the Earth's resources and the ecologists. This poignant reflection on the greatest challenge of our time was also an opportunity for Latour to explain the underlying thread that guided his work throughout his career, from his pathbreaking research on the social construction of scientific knowledge to his last writings on the Anthropocene.
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