ISBN:
9781498584234
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (251 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.2
Abstract:
This collection of essays, written by an international group of scholars, provides a more critical and creative contemporary practice of "sustainability." The book sets this practice free from its reductive interpretations and applies a more thoughtful environmental ethics to the current and emerging technologies that dominate our lives.
Abstract:
Cover -- Sustainability in the Anthropocene -- Series Page -- Sustainability in the Anthropocene: Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Historical Nature of the Problem: Sustainability and the Question of Modernity -- The Passion of the Personal: Disgust at the Fouling of the World/Dehumanization -- Ontogenesis: The Pro/creation of New Beings -- Notes -- Part I -- Defining Sustainability -- Chapter 1 -- Sustainability -- "Scarcity as the mother of invention": The emergence of sustainability as an idea and as a word -- Sustainability as the possibility of new cognitive strategies -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- Is This the End? -- From Sustainability to Sustainable Development or Progress -- Progress Optimism versus the Intellectuals: the Pinker Case -- Truthfulness-to-Nature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II -- Sustainability and Renewable Technologies: Sun, Air, Wind, Water -- Chapter 3 -- Is it Too Late to "Let the Sun Shine in"? -- Reference -- Chapter 4 -- Talking Weather from Ge-Rede to Ge-Stell1 -- The New "Modern Prometheus" -- Expectorations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 -- Water and Oil -- The Resurgence of Nuclear Energy -- The Gestell of Capital -- Hydrontology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 -- The Ontogenesis of Wind Turbines and the Question of Sustainability -- Elemental Phase: Matter as Protomatter -- Individual Phase: From Form to In-formation -- Ensemble Phase: Ontogenesis of Wind Turbines -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III -- Sustainability and Design -- Chapter 7 -- We're in this Together -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 -- An Alternative to Technological Instrumentalism -- Heidegger's Critique of Modern Technology -- The "Danger" of Sustainable Energy Technology.
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