From the Infinite Universe back to the Closed World
The ecological and climatic issue is one of the most urgent problems facing the world today.Bruno Latour has provided unique insights on this matter.The ecological crisis fundamentally stems from the crisis of modernity,and to overcome it,it is necessary to reconstruct the current world picture established by the modern scientific revolution.Firstly,the Anthropocene challenges the conventional dualistic view of human and nature.Secondly,the establishment of the modem worldview represented by Galileo essentially shifted from the closed world to the infinite universe.Thirdly,to address ecologi-cal challenges,we should acknowledge the Earth's uniqueness and return to the closed world as proposed by Lovelock.Fourthly,this is by no means the return to the pre-modernity but rather an affirmation that human beings are positioned on the Terrestrial.In conclusion,the beings rooted in the Terrestri-al are called Earthbound.Being-in-the-world should be understood as being-on-the-Terrestrial,which is conceived as the critical zones.
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