- Tytuł:
- Meso-Metaphysics and Paradigmatic Environmental Anti-Modernism: Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth and the Rejection, and Embrace, of Metaphysical Necessity
- Autorzy:
- Morgan, Jason
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/507656.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2020-09-30
- Wydawca:
- International Étienne Gilson Society
- Tematy:
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Bruno Latour
Gaia
metaphysics
climate change
Marxo-Hegelian grand narratives
globalism
Vladimir Verensky
anthropocene
Georges Bataille
Gayatri Spivak
Donna Haraway
neo-paganism
anti-Copernican revolution - Opis:
- Bruno Latour’s latest book, Down to Earth, argues that the Earth itself must “ground” philosophical modernity and provide a “ground” for thinking about globalism and the problems of the globalist agenda. In this review I find the use of the Earth, and of various other stand-ins for metaphysical principles, to be a kind of “meso-metaphysics,” a metaphysics which denies transcendence but all the same makes use of transcendence and operational otherness when needful for a given ideology, such as the radical environmentalism espoused by Bruno Latour. I see this as ultimately a rejection of both metaphysics and of the possibility of science and philosophy, as the conflation of the physical ground with a philosophical ground dooms meso-metaphysics to incoherence.
- Źródło:
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Studia Gilsoniana; 2020, 9, 3; 507-520
2300-0066 - Pojawia się w:
- Studia Gilsoniana
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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