Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming

by William E. Connolly

Book Overview

In Facing the Planetary William E. Connolly expands his influential work on the politics of pluralization, capitalism, fragility, and secularism to address the complexities of climate change and to complicate notions of the Anthropocene. Focusing on planetary processes--including the ocean conveyor, glacier flows, tectonic plates, and species evolution--he combines a critical understanding of capitalism with an appreciation of how such nonhuman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822363410
• ISBN13: 9780822363415
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"