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After Nature

A Politics for the Anthropocene

Jedediah Purdy

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ISBN 9780674979864

Publication Date: 02/19/2018

336 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Jedediah Purdy is Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.

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At Dissent, read Jedediah Purdy’s discussion with Katrina Forrester about the “infrastructure Leviathan” of human civilization that, he argues, must be dismantled collectively—and politically
Listen to Professor Purdy discuss humans as a literal force of nature on the podcast Cited
Explore a Boston Review forum, “The New Nature,” which features an argument presented by Purdy, responses, and a reply from the author
Read the Atlantic’s interview with Purdy
At the HUP Blog, read an excerpt from After Nature in which Purdy considers what kind of world we should make together
Listen to Purdy discuss the controversy behind the term “Anthropocene”—and possibilities for our collective future—on WUNC’s The State of Things
Read an excerpt from After Nature at Bloomberg View
In Dissent, read Purdy’s call for an “environmentalism for the left”
In the Atlantic, read Purdy’s defense of Thoreau—a difficult friend and a difficult citizen, but one who carried the flag for justice
In the New Yorker, read Purdy’s exploration of Madison Grant, the Sierra Club, and the racist history of the environmental movement
At Aeon, read Purdy on the cultural and political work being done by the “charismatic, all-encompassing idea of the Anthropocene”

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