Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific-emissions, pollens, extinctions-but...

Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening--And Our Best Hope von Purdy, Jedediah

Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his "letter of love for the world's possibilities." Indeed, these pages--which garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media--constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the...

"Das Elend der Ironie" von Jedediah Purdy untersucht die kulturellen und politischen Auswirkungen der ironischen Haltung, die in den späten 20. und frühen 21. Jahrhundert weit verbreitet ist. Purdy argumentiert, dass Ironie oft als...

A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the...

This Land Is Our Land von Purdy, Jedediah