Our Planetary Condition
Foundations for a Politics with the Earth
$161.40
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
17 November 2026
Summary
Our Planetary Condition
An actionable framework for doing politics with Earth’s nonliving, living, and technological agencies to expand planetary habitability.
Our Planetary Condition advances a simple yet transformative claim: We do not live on but are part of a planet whose nonliving, living, and technological forces actively shape politics. If keeping the Earth habitable is the defining challenge of our time, then politics must be restructured beyond human-center…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262057011 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262057018 |
| Author: | Frederic Hanusch, Liza B. Bauer |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 17 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Earth System Governance |
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“Our Planetary Condition offers a bold theoretical framework that tackles the complexity of planetary politics by integrating natural, machine, and social science. Remarkably, it also moves from a high level of abstraction to a set of practical and feasible suggestions for how to overlay new political structures onto the map of nation-states.”
—Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Frederic Hanusch
Frederic Hanusch is Professor of Planetary Change and Politics and Director of the Panel on Planetary Thinking at Justus Liebig University Giessen. His books include The Politics of Deep Time and Democracy and Climate Change.
Liza B. Bauer is a cultural and literary scholar with a focus on the sociocultural and political reconfiguration of human-animal relationships. She is the author of Livestock and Literature and functions as co-head of Justus Liebig University’s interdisciplinary research section on human-animal studies.
Clemens Finkelstein is a historian and theorist of built environments at the Kte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he leads the Laboratories of Dis:connectivity research program.
Claus Leggewie is former Ludwig Brne Professor at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, where he also directed and cofounded the Panel on Planetary Thinking. He is the author of numerous works exploring the relationship between nature and culture, covering topics from climate politics to the Anthropocene and multispecies democracy.
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