Table of Contents

Preface: On waking up

Acknowledgments

1. The Anthropocene Rupture

A rupture in Earth history

Volition in nature

Earth System science

Scientific misinterpretations

The ecomodernist gloss

An epoch by any other name

2. A New Anthropocentrism

To doubt everything

Anthropocentrism redux

The antinomy of the Anthropocene

A new anthropocentrism

The world-making creature

The new anthropocentrism versus ecomodernism

In praise of technology

3. Friends and Adversaries

Grand narratives are dead, until now

After post-humanism

The freak of nature

The ontological wrong turn

Recovering the cosmological sense?

4. A Planetary History?

The significance of humans

Does history have a meaning?

An Enlightenment fable 'Politics is fate'

5. The Rise and Fall of the Super-agent

Freedom is woven into nature-as-a-whole

Responsibility is not enough

Living without Utopia

Notes

Index

About the Author

Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. One of Australia's leading thinkers, he is author of the bestselling Requiem for a Species, and The Freedom Paradox and Growth Fetish.