[eBook Code] Defiant Earth (eBook Code, 1st)

Preface: On waking up
Acknowledgments

1 The Anthropocene Rupture
A rupture in Earth history
Volition in nature
Earth System science
Scientific misinterpretations
The ecomodernist gloss
An epoch by any other name

2 A New Anthropocentrism
To doubt everything
Anthropocentrism redux
The antinomy of the Anthropocene
The new anthropocentrism
The world-making creature
The new anthropocentrism versus ecomodernism In praise of technology

3 Friends and Adversaries
Grand narratives are dead, until now
After post-humanism
The freak of nature
The ontological wrong turn
Recovering the cosmological sense?

4 A Planetary History?
The significance of humans
Does history have a meaning?
An Enlightenment fable
‘Politics is fate’

5 The Rise and Fall of the Super-agent
Freedom is woven into nature-as-a-whole
Responsibility is not enough
Living without Utopia
Notes
Index