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3 - The “Anthropocene” in Philosophy: The Neo-material Turn and the Question of Nature

from Part I - The Conceptual Politics of the Anthropocene: Science, Philosophy, and Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2019

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Manuel Arias-Maldonado
Edited by
Frank Biermann  and
Eva Lövbrand
Frank Biermann
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Eva Lövbrand
Affiliation:
Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
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Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking , pp. 50 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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