POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE AGE OF ANTHROPIC CLIMATE CHANGE

Academic year
2018/2019 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE AGE OF ANTHROPIC CLIMATE CHANGE
Course code
ECC055 (AF:294406 AR:162044)
Modality
ECTS credits
1
Degree level
Istituto d`eccellenza
Educational sector code
M-FIL/02
Period
Annual
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
This seminar addresses the political-philosophical problems underlying the possible introduction of a new periodization category in geology, ‘Anthropocene’, referred to a geological epoch marked by the massive transformation of the earthly system as a consequence of the industrial unfolding of the technical capacities of homo sapiens. The debates on this problematic have reached far beyond specialists’ discussions and raise fundamental questions about the interrelation between humankind and the world, between human agency and geological history as well as between the natural sciences, technology and the humanities.
Lecturers: Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Venice) and Franz Mauelshagen (Potsdam/Duisburg)
Methodology: Seminar discussion based on 2 papers (one per session) by the lecturers, which will be circulated in advance.
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This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 06/06/2018