Time, technology and environment : an essay on the philosophy of nature / Marco Altamirano.

Author
Altamirano, Marco [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
1 online resource (vii, 175 pages).

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Biographical/​Historical note
Marco Altamirano teaches in the Philosophy Department at Louisiana State University. He has published in several philosophy journals including Foucault Studies, Symplokē and the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy.
Summary note
"Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He reveals the modern origins of the epistemological configuration of nature, where a subject confronts an object in space (and at time t), and wonders about her mode of access to that object. After critiquing the spatial orientation of this concept of nature, Altamirano shows that a new concept of time is necessary to reinstall the subject within its concrete ecology."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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Description based on print version record.
Contents
  • Introduction: the bifurcation of nature
  • Part I. Critique of the bifurcation of nature. The clock and the cogito
  • The polarisation of nature
  • Part II. Toward a new philosophy of nature. Difference and representation: Deleuze and the reversal of Platonism
  • Beyond the nature-artifice divide: technology, milieu and machine
  • Conclusion: the technological composition of milieus.
Other title(s)
Essay on the philosophy of nature
ISBN
  • 9780748691586 (webready PDF)
  • 0748691588 (webready PDF)
  • 9780748691593 (epub)
  • 0748691596 (epub)
LCCN
2016303186
OCLC
964527614
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