Hyperobjects : philosophy and ecology after the end of the world /

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Author / Creator:Morton, Timothy, 1968- author.
Imprint:Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource ( x, 229 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Posthumanities ; 27
Posthumanities ; 27.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12920531
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Varying Form of Title:Philosophy and ecology after the end of the world
ISBN:9781452940540
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other form:Print version: Morton, Timothy, 1968- Hyperobjects. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013 9780816689224
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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 one another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art.

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.

Physical Description:1 online resource ( x, 229 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781452940540
1452940541
1299990274
9781299990272
9781461948056
1461948053
9780816689224
0816689229
9780816689231
0816689237