Ours Is the Earth: Science and Human History in the Anthropocene
Ours Is the Earth: Science and Human History in the Anthropocene
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我们的地球：人类世的科学与人类历史
DOI：
10.1163/18722636-12341447
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发表时间：
2020
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0.5
通讯作者：
Jasanoff, Sheila
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作者：
Jasanoff, Sheila
历史曾经毫无问题地借鉴了人类社会关于他们自己及其所作所为的记录。生物学和地球科学的进步引入了新的叙事资源，重新定位了人类故事与地球上所有其他事物的进化，从而背离了早期关于时间、生命和人类活动的概念。我们人类的历史已经与组成生物圈的物质过程如此紧密地纠缠在一起，同时我们想象的时间地平线被向前和向后拉伸，这篇文章反思了这对我们对人类的理解意味着什么，强调了人类存在相对于地球时间的短暂。我认为，尽管我们可以借助科学重新思考人类状况的资源发生了重大变化，但历史的根本目的并没有变得无关紧要。像以前一样，这些主题集中在以理解人类经验并赋予其意义的方式连接过去和未来的规范性项目上。特别是，人类应该如何想象在人类世管理地球的问题仍然是一个历史的伦理项目，而主要不是自然科学的领域。
History at one time drew unproblematically on records produced by human societies about themselves and their doings. Advances in biology and the earth sciences introduced new narrative resources that repositioned the human story in relation to the evolution of all else on the planet, thereby decentering earlier conceptions of time, life, and human agency. This essay reflects on what it means for our understanding of the human that the history of our species has become so intimately entangled with the material processes that make up the biosphere, while concurrently the temporal horizon of our imagination has been stretched forward and back, underscoring the brevity of human existence in relation to earthly time. I suggest that, despite significant changes in the resources with which we can rethink the human condition, drawing upon the sciences, history’s fundamental purposes have not been rendered irrelevant. These center, as before, on the normative project of connecting past and future in ways that make sense of human experience and give meaning to it. In particular, the question of how humans should imagine the stewardship of the Earth in the Anthropocene remains an ethical project for history and not primarily the domain of the natural sciences.
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发表时间：
1989
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作者：
W. Benjamin
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W. Benjamin
科学的文化边界：可信度岌岌可危
影响因子：
2.9
作者：
T. Gieryn
通讯作者：
T. Gieryn
讲故事的地方：自然、历史和叙事
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发表时间：
1992
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作者：
William Cronon
通讯作者：
William Cronon