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By Sam Mickey

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ISBN-13: 9781783481361

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On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization provides a philosophical contribution to indispensable ecology—an rising method of the sphere that crosses disciplinary obstacles of the arts and sciences.

In this unique publication, Sam Mickey argues for the transdisciplinary importance of philosophical innovations that facilitate understandings of and responses to the limits all in favour of ecological concerns. Mickey demonstrates how a lot the provocative French thinker Gilles Deleuze contributes to the improvement of such thoughts, situating his paintings in discussion with that of his colleagues Felix Guattari and Jacques Derrida, and with theorists who're adapting his suggestions in modern contexts akin to Isabelle Stengers, Catherine Keller, and the speculative realist move of object-oriented ontology.

The e-book makes a speciality of the overlapping existential, social and environmental elements of the ecological difficulties pervading our more and more interconnected planet. It explores the limits between

  • self and different,
  • humans and nonhumans,
  • sciences and arts,
  • monism and pluralism,
  • sacred and secular,
  • fact and fiction,
  • the starting and finish of the area, and masses more.

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