Preface: On waking up
Acknowledgments
1 The Anthropocene Rupture
A rupture in Earth history
Volition in nature
Earth System science
Scientific misinterpretations
The ecomodernist gloss
An epoch by any other name
2 A New Anthropocentrism
To doubt everything
Anthropocentrism redux
The antinomy of the Anthropocene
The new anthropocentrism
The world-making creature
The new anthropocentrism versus ecomodernism In praise of
technology
3 Friends and Adversaries
Grand narratives are dead, until now
After post-humanism
The freak of nature
The ontological wrong turn
Recovering the cosmological sense?
4 A Planetary History?
The significance of humans
Does history have a meaning?
An Enlightenment fable
`Politics is fate’
5 The Rise and Fall of the Super-agent
Freedom is woven into nature-as-a-whole
Responsibility is not enough
Living without Utopia
Notes
Index
Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra and author of Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change and Earthmasters: The dawn of the age of climate engineering.
"Defiant Earth is a major contribution to a topic that is of vital
if not pre-eminent importance today. The book is highly original in
its synthesis of the scientific, philosophical and religious issues
raised by the coming of the 'Anthropocene.' Hamilton mines each of
these traditions for ways to make sense of the new and frightening
epoch that is upon us." - Adrian Wilding, University of Jena,
Germany
"For those entertaining the idea that we should just rocket away
from an overheated planet to some new world, or perhaps fill the
atmosphere with sulphur to block out the sun, here's a remarkably
powerful accounting of our actual responsibility--past, present,
and future." - Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
"Earth system scientists' idea of the Anthropocene has given rise
to two seemingly rival camps of thought in the humanities: there
are those who want to fold the idea back into new histories of
global capital, and those who have used the debate to move towards
a new philosophical anthropology. Clive Hamilton has been an
original, important, and distinctive voice in this debate. Defiant
Earth goes a long way towards bridging the distance between these
rival camps while generating insights of its own into the meanings
of being human in an age of planetary climate change. An essential
reading for our times." - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of
Chicago
"Defiant Earth is a major contribution to a topic that is of vital
if not pre-eminent importance today. The book is highly original in
its synthesis of the scientific, philosophical and religious issues
raised by the coming of the 'Anthropocene.' Hamilton mines each of
these traditions for ways to make sense of the new and frightening
epoch that is upon us." - Adrian Wilding, University of Jena,
Germany
"For those entertaining the idea that we should just rocket away
from an overheated planet to some new world, or perhaps fill the
atmosphere with sulphur to block out the sun, here's a remarkably
powerful accounting of our actual responsibility--past, present,
and future." - Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
"Earth system scientists' idea of the Anthropocene has given rise
to two seemingly rival camps of thought in the humanities: there
are those who want to fold the idea back into new histories of
global capital, and those who have used the debate to move towards
a new philosophical anthropology. Clive Hamilton has been an
original, important, and distinctive voice in this debate. Defiant
Earth goes a long way towards bridging the distance between these
rival camps while generating insights of its own into the meanings
of being human in an age of planetary climate change. An essential
reading for our times." - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
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