nature, technology and the postnatural
Edición de la obra Anti-human theology
| Autor | Scott, Peter |
|---|---|
| Editorial | SCM Press, Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd |
| Fecha de publicación | 2010 |
| Lugar | London |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 208 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780334043546 |
| ISBN-10 | 0334043549 |
| OCLC | 472868178 |
| Serie | Revisioning ethics · Re-Visioning ethics |
| Número de Cutter | S428a |
Peter Manley Scott offers a theological and ethical reading of our present situation. Due to the vigour of its re-engineering of the world by its technologies, western society has entered into a postnatural condition in which standard divisions between the natural and the artificial are no longer convincing. This postnatural development is liberating - both theologically and politically. Scott develops an 'anthropology' that does not repeat Christianity's history of anthropocentrism but instead criticizes it by exploring the mutual entanglement of animals, humans and other creatures. Deeply disrespectful of traditional centres of power, his ethical critiques of 'pioneering' technologies expose their anti-social and anti-ecological tendencies and identify possible paths of oppositional political action. This is ethical theology at its best: deeply informed by theological tradition, immersed in contemporary political-technological problematics in radically oppositional ways, and yet fiercely hopeful of a good outcome for animals - human and non-human - and other life in history. (Publisher).