Description: This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications. The essays together present a revaluation of the natural world with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time.
Brief description: Akeel Bilgrami (PhD, Philosophy, Chicago) is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and faculty member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He is the author of Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (Harvard, 2014) and Self-Knowledge and Resentment (Harvard, 2006), among other titles, and he is the editor of several books, including Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? (Columbia, 2015) and Beyond the Secular West (Columbia, 2016); he is also the editor of the series Columbia Themes in Philosophy. His interests include philosophy of mind and language, political philosophy, and moral psychology.
Review Quotes: It has been a genuine privilege and a pleasure to read this book. I learned a great deal from doing so and I fully expect that other readers will learn much as well. Nature and Value accomplishes something inestimably important by demonstrating how it is possible to juxtapose writings by scholars from a vast array of different disciplines and generate a conversation about climate change that is at once coherent and dynamic.--Paul Apostolidis, London School of Economics and Political Science