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    Freedom and Heteronomy in the Anthropocene
    with Harry F. Dahms
    Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 32 (1): 39-52. 2023.
    The concept of the Anthropocene reflects a particular meaning of the “human” as it exists in society, and a specific understanding of freedom, which only became possible at the close of the twentieth century. Whereas Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant, Rousseau, and Adam Smith attempted to grasp the potential for humanity to be changed through society in a self-conscious process of attaining freedom, the “Age of Man” today appears entirely disconnected from human agency. Indeed, the Anthropocen…Read more