{"product_id":"theory-of-the-earth-hardback-9781503614956","title":"Theory of the Earth (Hardback) 9781503614956","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTheory of the Earth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas Nail (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503614956\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 April 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 2 tables, 16 figures\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.716 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"One of the most remarkable books I've read in some time. Thomas Nail forges a mode of materialist philosophy in conversation with recent, cross-disciplinary movements in the environmental humanities, generating a mode of thinking and theorizing that moves beyond the scale of human life.\"—Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University \"Thomas Nail has developed a much-needed, and previously underrepresented philosophy of geology. In elaborating a process theory of a kinetic earth, this book helps us imagine our planet as neither a static place of habitation nor a protective Mother Earth.\"—Matthias Fritsch, Concordia University \"Is ecocide, unconsciously practiced by industrio-techno-capitalist humans to their own detriment and potential extinction, a direct result of the reduction and destruction of Earth's complex energy dissipation? In an ambitious and fabulous synthesis, with a Lucretian sensibility and deep scientific rapprochement, Thomas Nail gives us back a real Earth, where life is part of a planetary more-than-human dissipative system and humans better get with the flow. A fascinating, difficult, needed scientifico-philosophical document, \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e should interest and irritate scientists as it provides a needed provocation to much modern environmental philosophy.\"—Dorion Sagan, author of \u003ci\u003eCosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science\u003c\/i\u003e \"While Anthropocene ideology focuses on the destructive action of humans on a passive Earth, Nail posits that conceptual refocusing—away from conservation toward an ethics of energy transformation—can help address the serious environmental problems we face. Though chiefly a work of philosophy, this text is accessible for any advanced reader interested in environmental meta issues. Recommended.\"—E. Kincanon, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in the fossil record for millennia or longer. Crafting a philosophy of geology that rewrites natural and human history from the broader perspective of movement, Thomas Nail provides a new materialist, kinetic ethics of the earth that speaks to this moment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate change and other ecological disruptions challenge us to reconsider the deep history of minerals, atmosphere, plants, and animals and to take a more process-oriented perspective that sees humanity as part of the larger cosmic and terrestrial drama of mobility and flow. Building on his earlier work on the philosophy of movement, Nail argues that we should shift our biocentric emphasis from conservation to expenditure, flux, and planetary diversity. \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e urges us to rethink our ethical relationship to one another, the planet, and the cosmos at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Flow of Matter\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Fold of Elements\u003cbr\u003e  3. The Planetary Field\u003cbr\u003e  4. Centripetal Minerality\u003cbr\u003e  5. Hadean Earth\u003cbr\u003e  6. Centrifugal Atmospherics\u003cbr\u003e  7. Archean Earth I: Pneumatology\u003cbr\u003e  8. Archean Earth II: Biogenesis\u003cbr\u003e  9. Tensional Vegetality\u003cbr\u003e  10. Proterozoic Earth\u003cbr\u003e  11. Elastic Animality\u003cbr\u003e  12. Phanerozoic Earth I: Kinomorphology\u003cbr\u003e  13. Phanerozoic Earth II: Terrestrialization\u003cbr\u003e  14. Kinocene Earth\u003cbr\u003e  15. Kinocene Ethics\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: The Future\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610616623384,"sku":"9781503614956","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/theory-of-the-earth-hardback-9781503614956","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}