Time, Technology, and Environment: An Essay on the Philosophy of Nature
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Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He reveals the modern origins of the epistemological configuration of nature, where a subject confronts an object in space (and at time t ), and wonders about her mode of access to that object. After critiquing the spatial orientation of this concept of nature, Altamirano shows that a new concept of time is necessary to reinstall the subject within its concrete ecology.
Altamirano goes on to deploy conceptual resources excavated from Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Leroi-Gourhan to show how technology, which bypasses the nature-artifice distinction, is an essential dimension of the philosophy of nature. Ultimately, this book draws the profile of a concept of nature based on time and technology that escapes the nature-artifice distinction that has mired the philosophy of nature for so long.
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LOC Call Number
BD581 .A437 2016
ISBN
9780748691579
Publication Date
2016
Department
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
City
Edinburgh
Recommended Citation
Altamirano, Marco, "Time, Technology, and Environment: An Essay on the Philosophy of Nature" (2016).