{"product_id":"hyperobjects-philosophy-and-ecology-after-the-end-of-the-world-paperback","title":"Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Morton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls \"hyperobjects\"--entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. In this book, Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist with one another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving fluidly between philosophy, science, literature, visual and conceptual art, and popular culture, the book argues that hyperobjects show that the end of the world has already occurred in the sense that concepts such as world, nature, and even environment are no longer a meaningful horizon against which human events take place. Instead of inhabiting a world, we find ourselves inside a number of hyperobjects, such as climate, nuclear weapons, evolution, or relativity. Such objects put unbearable strains on our normal ways of reasoning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInsisting that we have to reinvent how we think to even begin to comprehend the world we now live in, \u003ci\u003eHyperobjects\u003c\/i\u003e takes the first steps, outlining a genuinely postmodern ecological approach to thought and action. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTimothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Ecological Thought \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Ecology without Nature\u003c\/i\u003e. He blogs frequently at \u003ci\u003eEcology without Nature\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.48 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 23, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757866156320,"sku":"9780816689231","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e7a5a33be89f3701224b2d7b4da71e9a.webp?v=1780113514","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/hyperobjects-philosophy-and-ecology-after-the-end-of-the-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}