The Epochal Event : Transformations in the Entangled Human, Technological, and Natural Worlds

Name: The Epochal Event
Brand: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
SKU: 9783030478049
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ISBN: 9783030478049

2020 ed.

by Zoltan Boldizsar Simon

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Format Hardback

Book Series Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

ISBN-10 3030478041

ISBN-13 9783030478049

Edition 2020 ed.

Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Country of Manufacture CH

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 24th, 2020

Print length 143 Pages

Weight 318 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 22.10 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Historiography Historiography History of science The environment History of engineering & technology History of engineering and technology

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In making sense of these prospects, Simon’s book sketches the rise of a new epochal thinking, introduces the epochal event as an emerging category of a renewed historical thought, and makes the case for the necessity of bringing together the work of the human and the natural sciences in developing knowledge of a more-than-human world.

This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers through technologies that entangle the human and the natural worlds, human beings have become agents of a new kind of transformative event. The ongoing sixth mass extinction of species, the prospect of a technological singularity, and the potential crossing of planetary boundaries are expected to trigger transformations on a planetary scale that we deem catastrophic and try to avoid. In making sense of these prospects, Simon’s book sketches the rise of a new epochal thinking, introduces the epochal event as an emerging category of a renewed historical thought, and makes the case for the necessity of bringing together the work of the human and the natural sciences in developing knowledge of a more-than-human world.

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