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Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

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Description for Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 15 black and white illustrations and 8 color plates. BIC Classification: HPJ; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.

Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls “hyperobjects”—entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. In this book, Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist with ... Read more

Moving fluidly between philosophy, science, literature, visual and conceptual art, and popular culture, the book argues that hyperobjects show that the end of the world has already occurred in the sense that concepts such as world, nature, and even environment are no longer a meaningful horizon against which human events take place. Instead of inhabiting a world, we find ourselves inside a number of hyperobjects, such as climate, nuclear weapons, evolution, or relativity. Such objects put unbearable strains on our normal ways of reasoning.

Insisting that we have to reinvent how we think to even begin to comprehend the world we now live in, Hyperobjects takes the first steps, outlining a genuinely postmodern ecological approach to thought and action.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Posthumanities
Condition
New
Weight
301g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816689231
SKU
V9780816689231
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Timothy Morton
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author of many books, including The Ecological Thought and Ecology without Nature. He blogs frequently at Ecology without Nature.

Reviews for Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
"In Hyperobjects, Timothy Morton brings to bear his deep knowledge of a wide array of subjects to propose a new way of looking at our situation, which might allow us to take action toward the future health of the biosphere. Crucially, the relations between Buddhism and science, nature and culture, are examined in the fusion of a single vision. The ... Read more

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