After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene

by Jedediah Purdy

Book Overview

An Artforum Best Book of the Year
A Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the Year

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674979869
• ISBN13: 9780674979864
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"