The Anthropocene Turning Point: A New Historicity of Social Relations
Language
en
Article de revue
This item was published in
Inter-faculty. 2020, vol. 20, p. 43-52
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences,University of Tsukuba
English Abstract
The historical turning point evidenced by the Covid-19 crisis should now lead to a proper name being given to the notion of ‘second modernity’ which, up to the present time, has been defined only in relation to the ‘first ...Read more >
The historical turning point evidenced by the Covid-19 crisis should now lead to a proper name being given to the notion of ‘second modernity’ which, up to the present time, has been defined only in relation to the ‘first modernity. Here, we put forward the thesis that this new definition be the anthropocene, so that following the ‘sociology of modernity’, a ‘sociology of anthropocene’ may become the new framework for analyzing the historicity of contemporary social relations.Read less <
English Keywords
second modernity
anthropocene
historicity
sociological theory
Origin
Hal imported