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Nature, Technology and the Sacred

By: Bronislaw Szerszynski

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Nature, Technology and the Sacred

By: Bronislaw Szerszynski

This provocative and timely book argues that contemporary ideas and practices concerning nature and technology remain closely bound up with religious ways of thinking and acting. Using examples from North America, Europe and elsewhere, it reinterprets a range of 'secular' phenomena in terms of their conditioning by a complex series of transformations of the sacred in Western history. The contemporary practices of environmental politics, technological risk behaviour, alternative medicine, vegetarianism and ethical consumption take on new significance as sites of struggle between different sacral orderings. Nature, Technology and the Sacred introduces a radically new direction for today's critical discourse concerning nature and technology – one that reinstates it as a moment within the ongoing religious history of the West.

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1405137770

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Planetary Social Thought

The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences

By: Nigel Clark,Bronislaw Szerszynski

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Planetary Social Thought

The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences

By: Nigel Clark,Bronislaw Szerszynski

The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, Anthropocene science proposes that human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state, with unpredictable consequences. Social life has become a central ingredient in the dynamics of the planet itself. How should the social sciences respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by this development? In this innovative book, Clark and Szerszynski argue that social thinkers need to revise their own presuppositions about the social: to understand it as the product of a dynamic planet, self-organizing over deep time. They outline ‘planetary social thought’: a transdisciplinary way of thinking social life with and through the Earth. Using a range of case studies, they show how familiar social processes can be radically recast when looked at through a planetary lens, revealing how the world-transforming powers of human social life have always depended on the forging of relations with the inhuman potentialities of our home planet. Presenting a social theory of the planetary, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in humanity’s relation to the changing Earth.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509526382

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Nature, Technology and the Sacred

By: Bronislaw Szerszynski

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Planetary Social Thought

The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences

By: Nigel Clark,Bronislaw Szerszynski

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The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences

By: Nigel Clark,Bronislaw Szerszynski

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1509526366

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Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred

Transdisciplinary Perspectives

By: Dr Bronislaw Szerszynski,Prof Dr Sigurd Bergmann,Professor Celia Deane-Drummond

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Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred

Transdisciplinary Perspectives

By: Dr Bronislaw Szerszynski,Prof Dr Sigurd Bergmann,Professor Celia Deane-Drummond

The capacity of human beings to invent, construct and use technical artifacts is a hugely consequential factor in the evolution of society, and in the entangled relations between humans, other creatures and their natural environments. Moving from a critical consideration of theories, to narratives about technology, and then to particular and specific practices, Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred seeks to arrive at a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective focusing attention on the intersection between technology, religion and society and using insights from the environmental humanities. It works from both theoretical and practical contexts by using newly emerging case studies, including geo-engineering and soil carbon technologies, and breaks open new ground by engaging theological, scientific, philosophical and cultural aspects of the technology/religion/nature nexus. Encouraging us to reflect on the significance and place of religious beliefs in dealing with new technologies, and engaging critical theory common in sociological, political and literary discourses, the authors explore the implicit religious claims embedded in technology.

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313

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472444124

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9781472444127

Nature, Technology and the Sacred

By: Bronislaw Szerszynski

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631236031

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Reordering Nature

Theology, Society and the New Genetics

By: Celia Deane-Drummond,Bronislaw Szerszynski,Robin Grove-White

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Reordering Nature

Theology, Society and the New Genetics

By: Celia Deane-Drummond,Bronislaw Szerszynski,Robin Grove-White

In this book experts in the environment, theology and science argue that the challenge posed to society by biotechnology lies not only in terms of risk/benefit analysis of individual genetic technologies and interventions, but also has implications for the way we think about human identity and our relationship to the natural world. Such a profound--they would suggest religious--challenge requires a response that is genuinely interdisciplinary in nature, a conversation that draws as much on expertise in theology and philosophy as on the natural sciences and risk assessment techniques. They argue that an adequate response must also be sociologically informed in at least two ways. First it must draw on contemporary sociological insights about contemporary cultural change, the complex role of expert knowledge in modern complex society and the specific social dynamics of contemporary technological risks. Secondly, it must endeavour to pay sensitive attention to the voice of the lay public in the current controversy over the new genetics. This book attempts to realise such an aim, as a contribution not just to academic scholarship, but also to the public debate about biotechnology and its regulation. Thus the collection includes contributions from scholars in a range of intellectual domains (indeed, many of the chapters themselves draw on more than one discipline in new and challenging ways). The book invites the reader to enter into this conversation in a creative way and come to appreciate more fully the many-sided nature of the debate.

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394

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A&C Black

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0567088960

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Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene

By: Morten Tønnessen,Kristin Armstrong Oma,Silver Rattasepp

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Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene

By: Morten Tønnessen,Kristin Armstrong Oma,Silver Rattasepp

The term “Anthropocene”, the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic (human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our impact on the living conditions of animals, others question conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals, and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world, as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of animals as they used to be before mankind´s rise to global ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498527973

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Time Imperfect

By: Bronislaw Wildstein

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Time Imperfect

By: Bronislaw Wildstein

An Imperfect Time" is an epic story depicting the fate of people involved in the grim history of the twentieth century. From the pogrom in the village near Pinsk to the reality of the Third Republic, the author leads us along winding roads, reversing the narrative, changing epochs and countries. We follow the fate of several generations of the Brok family, to whom history did not spare anything, neither suffering nor betrayal, nor crime, nor ideological asphyxiation. But you can look at the book a little differently, namely as a record and an attempt to understand the experiences that shaped today's Poland, from the bloody October Revolution through hopeful Solidarity to the futility of the Third Polish Republic. Finally, this book can be read as a kind of morality play showing the struggle of people against the temptations of evil and nothingness, those temptations that were effectively misled by the twentieth century.

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720

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Winged Hussar Publishing

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1950423239

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9781950423231

Book's by Bronislaw Szerszynski

Nature, Technology and the Sacred

Nature, Technology and the Sacred

Planetary Social Thought

Planetary Social Thought

Nature, Technology and the Sacred

Nature, Technology and the Sacred

Planetary Social Thought

Planetary Social Thought

Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred

Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred

Nature, Technology and the Sacred

Nature, Technology and the Sacred

Reordering Nature

Reordering Nature

Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene

Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene

Time Imperfect

Time Imperfect

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