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Anthropocene Imaginaries: Geophilosophy, Political Theology, and the Planetary Future.

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Title/Author:	Anthropocene Imaginaries: Geophilosophy, Political Theology, and the Planetary Future./
Author:	Roberts, Austin.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	242 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-06, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-06B.
Subject:	Theology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28258951
ISBN:	9798557008761

Anthropocene Imaginaries: Geophilosophy, Political Theology, and the Planetary Future.
Roberts, Austin.

Anthropocene Imaginaries: Geophilosophy, Political Theology, and the Planetary Future. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 242 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-06, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drew University, 2021.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

The Anthropocene is the name proposed by scientists for a new geological epoch in which human activity has become a dominant influence on planetary processes. More specifically, the concept of the Anthropocene alerts us to the fact that the environmentally destructive activities of a certain subset of our species have recently brought about a radical shift in the functioning of the Earth System, rendering the planet more unstable and unpredictable than it was for the last 10,000 years. As a result of the ongoing ecosocial violence of extractive capitalism, our "new human epoch" is now marked by multiple crises, including climate disruption, ocean acidification, rising sea levels, and an emerging sixth extinction event. In recognition of the ways in which these crises magnify our interdependence with nonhuman worlds, this dissertation argues that the Anthropocene not only unveils the unsustainability of current societal structures, but also destabilizes imaginaries of humanity, nature, and divinity that have served to justify ecosocially unjust ways of life. Applying a transdisciplinary method that draws on the earth sciences and environmental humanities, philosophies of process and new materialisms, and ecological and political theologies, this dissertation responds to the emergence of the new epoch in two interrelated ways: first, by critically analyzing the mutually amplifying socio-political, geological, and ideological forces that sustain our Anthropocene crises; and second, by constructing a postmodern "planetary imaginary" that may help to support and motivate efforts to realize an ecosocially just future. The work of Charles Taylor is employed to analyze the philosophical and theological dimensions of the "dominant modern imaginary," which is shown to be based on human exceptionalism and the secularist image of nature as a deanimated, devalued, and desacralized machine. In an attempt to short-circuit this imaginary, and to cultivate an "earthbound" (Bruno Latour) existential orientation, this dissertation's planetary imaginary is theorized as a "geophilosophy" (Gilles Deleuze), which conceptually redistributes animacy and intrinsic value to nonhuman worlds. Drawing on Mary-Jane Rubenstein's "pantheologies" and Catherine Keller's panentheism, geophilosophy is then translated as "geotheology," which resacralizes the nonhuman through an immanental conception of divinity. Finally, this dissertation utilizes geotheology in conjunction with political theories of climate change to propose a radically democratic political theology, which is deployed in resistance to the secularized theology of omnipotence that fuels old and new forms of political sovereignty in the Anthropocene.

ISBN: 9798557008761Subjects--Topical Terms:

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