Place and the Hermeneutics of the Anthropocene
Connecting the Anthropocene to the “spatial turn” in theology, the present essay has two goals. First, departing from more common readings, this essay suggests that “the Anthropocene” is a hermeneutical concept, which serves as an interpretive name for how the contemporary human-environment relation...
| Published in: | Worldviews |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Brill
2016
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| In: |
Worldviews
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Geology, Stratigraphic
/ Hermeneutics
/ Place
/ Theology
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| RelBib Classification: | FD Contextual theology NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics TJ Modern history TK Recent history VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Anthropocene
space
place
philosophical hermeneutics
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Connecting the Anthropocene to the “spatial turn” in theology, the present essay has two goals. First, departing from more common readings, this essay suggests that “the Anthropocene” is a hermeneutical concept, which serves as an interpretive name for how the contemporary human-environment relationship is materialized and thought. Second, this essay argues that the hermeneutics of the Anthropocene requires a point of mediation found in philosophical readings of human dwelling and the theological desire to find the integrity of place. The meaning of the Anthropocene can be used theologically to expose the contradictions within our imagination of the material location of the human future. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5357 |
| Contains: | In: Worldviews
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685357-02003002 |