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Why Climate Breakdown Matters

Read, Rupert
Innbundet / 2022 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350212022
Publisert
2022-08-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
232

Forfatter
Read, Rupert

Biographical note

Rupert Read is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is a former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion collective, an environmental activist and a former Green Party councillor. His most recent books include Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the Inside (with Samuel Alexander) (2020), This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond (2019) and A film-philosophy of ecology and enlightenment (2018).

Why Climate Breakdown Matters

Read, Rupert
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Read, Rupert
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Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a book for anyone who wants their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity. As people come together to mourn the loss of the planet, we have the opportunity to create a grounded, hopeful response. This meaningful hopefulness looks to the new communities created around climate activism. Together, our collective mourning enables us to become human in ways previously unknown. Why Climate Breakdown Matters is a practical guide on how to be a radical, responsible climate activist.
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Preface Prologue: The Attention-Shift From Climate To Corona - And Back Again? Introduction: On Climate, Ecological And Societal Breakdown Chapter 1: Just How Much Do You Care About The Future Of Humanity? Chapter 2: Is Climate Breakdown A White Swan? Chapter 3: Is This Civilisation Finished? Chapter 4: The Great Gift Of Community That (Climate) Disasters Can Give Us Chapter 5: How Climate Grief May Yet Be The Making Of Us Chapter 6: Can We Understand Cetacean Society? Can We Change Ourselves? Chapter 7: How Today To Live In Truth Epilogue: The Lessons From Corona For Climate Bibliography
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[Read's] references are genuinely an interesting read – I repeatedly found myself underlining sentences and citations for later consideration and investigation. With Read [being] one of the most interesting thinkers currently engaging with the most pressing issue of our time, Why Climate Breakdown Matters is essential reading.
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A radical treatise on how to live with hope and meaning on a dying planet written by the spokesperson for the global 'Extinction Rebellion' movement.
The author, Rupert Read, is uniquely positioned to write this book as a philosopher, former politician and high-profile activist
Why Philosophy Matters is an exciting series of short and accessible books showcasing the importance of philosophical thought to contemporary concerns that affect both our everyday lives and the future of humanity. From clinical delusions to the climate breakdown, medieval philosophy to postmodernism, each book tackles a particular area of interest and discourse from a distinctively philosophical point of view, thereby expanding the limits of what is thinkable and doable. In contrast to textbooks and introductions that aim to provide a neutral overview of a particular field of enquiry, Why Philosophy Matters authors offer unabashedly partisan, passionate, and provocative defences of how to engage with the world and think about what matters. Their books cover a wide range of topics: socio-political issues, human and non-human life, new technological and cultural realities, current infrastructures, and novel approaches to art, religion, psychology, and ethics. Collectively, the volumes in this series provide the reader with a philosophical ingress into twenty-first century thought, as well as a vital expansion of philosophy itself.
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Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a book for anyone who wants their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity. As people come together to mourn the loss of the planet, we have the opportunity to create a grounded, hopeful response. This meaningful hopefulness looks to the new communities created around climate activism. Together, our collective mourning enables us to become human in ways previously unknown. Why Climate Breakdown Matters is a practical guide on how to be a radical, responsible climate activist.
Les mer
Preface Prologue: The Attention-Shift From Climate To Corona - And Back Again? Introduction: On Climate, Ecological And Societal Breakdown Chapter 1: Just How Much Do You Care About The Future Of Humanity? Chapter 2: Is Climate Breakdown A White Swan? Chapter 3: Is This Civilisation Finished? Chapter 4: The Great Gift Of Community That (Climate) Disasters Can Give Us Chapter 5: How Climate Grief May Yet Be The Making Of Us Chapter 6: Can We Understand Cetacean Society? Can We Change Ourselves? Chapter 7: How Today To Live In Truth Epilogue: The Lessons From Corona For Climate Bibliography
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[Read's] references are genuinely an interesting read – I repeatedly found myself underlining sentences and citations for later consideration and investigation. With Read [being] one of the most interesting thinkers currently engaging with the most pressing issue of our time, Why Climate Breakdown Matters is essential reading.
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A radical treatise on how to live with hope and meaning on a dying planet written by the spokesperson for the global 'Extinction Rebellion' movement.
The author, Rupert Read, is uniquely positioned to write this book as a philosopher, former politician and high-profile activist
Why Philosophy Matters is an exciting series of short and accessible books showcasing the importance of philosophical thought to contemporary concerns that affect both our everyday lives and the future of humanity. From clinical delusions to the climate breakdown, medieval philosophy to postmodernism, each book tackles a particular area of interest and discourse from a distinctively philosophical point of view, thereby expanding the limits of what is thinkable and doable. In contrast to textbooks and introductions that aim to provide a neutral overview of a particular field of enquiry, Why Philosophy Matters authors offer unabashedly partisan, passionate, and provocative defences of how to engage with the world and think about what matters. Their books cover a wide range of topics: socio-political issues, human and non-human life, new technological and cultural realities, current infrastructures, and novel approaches to art, religion, psychology, and ethics. Collectively, the volumes in this series provide the reader with a philosophical ingress into twenty-first century thought, as well as a vital expansion of philosophy itself.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350212022
Publisert
2022-08-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
232

Forfatter
Read, Rupert

Biographical note

Rupert Read is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is a former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion collective, an environmental activist and a former Green Party councillor. His most recent books include Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the Inside (with Samuel Alexander) (2020), This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond (2019) and A film-philosophy of ecology and enlightenment (2018).

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