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Title: Anti-human Theology
Condition: New
Subtitle: Nature,Technology and the Postnatural
ISBN-10: 0334043549
EAN: 9780334043546
ISBN: 9780334043546
Publisher: SCM Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 04/29/2010
Description: 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 criticises 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 156mm
Item Length: 234mm
Item Width: 321mm
Item Weight: 12g
Author: Peter M. Scott
Contributor: Celia E. Deane-Drummond (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Year: 2010

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