TEST1 Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible
We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided the living from the inert, subjectivity from objectivity, the apparent from the real, value from fact, and the human from the nonhuman? Can the great oppositions that presided over the modern invention of nature still claim any cogency? In Nature as Event, Didier Debaise shows how new narratives and cosmologies are necessary to rearticulate that which until now had been separated. Following William James and Alfred North Whitehead, Debaise presents a pluralistic approach to nature. What would happen if we attributed subjectivity and potential to all beings, human and nonhuman? Why should we not consider aesthetics and affect as the fabric that binds all existence? And what if the senses of importance and value were no longer understood to be exclusively limited to the human?
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TEST1 Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible
We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided the living from the inert, subjectivity from objectivity, the apparent from the real, value from fact, and the human from the nonhuman? Can the great oppositions that presided over the modern invention of nature still claim any cogency? In Nature as Event, Didier Debaise shows how new narratives and cosmologies are necessary to rearticulate that which until now had been separated. Following William James and Alfred North Whitehead, Debaise presents a pluralistic approach to nature. What would happen if we attributed subjectivity and potential to all beings, human and nonhuman? Why should we not consider aesthetics and affect as the fabric that binds all existence? And what if the senses of importance and value were no longer understood to be exclusively limited to the human?
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TEST1 Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible

TEST1 Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible

TEST1 Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible

TEST1 Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible

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We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided the living from the inert, subjectivity from objectivity, the apparent from the real, value from fact, and the human from the nonhuman? Can the great oppositions that presided over the modern invention of nature still claim any cogency? In Nature as Event, Didier Debaise shows how new narratives and cosmologies are necessary to rearticulate that which until now had been separated. Following William James and Alfred North Whitehead, Debaise presents a pluralistic approach to nature. What would happen if we attributed subjectivity and potential to all beings, human and nonhuman? Why should we not consider aesthetics and affect as the fabric that binds all existence? And what if the senses of importance and value were no longer understood to be exclusively limited to the human?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822372424
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 08/31/2018
Series: Thought in the Act
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 112
File size: 980 KB

About the Author

Didier Debaise is a permanent researcher at the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), director of the Research Center in Philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the author and editor of several books in French.

Table of Contents

Introduction  1
1. The Cosmology of the Moderns  3
2. A Universal Mannerism  39
3. The Intensification of Experience  77
Notes  87
Bibliography  99
Index  103
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