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Play among the stars: Astrobiology and intra‐action in Pryor's Living with Tiny Aliens
Author(s) -
John Mix Lucas
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12630
Subject(s) - anthropocene , anthropocentrism , context (archaeology) , action (physics) , humanity , environmental ethics , imago , normative , astrobiology , philosophy , sociology , epistemology , aesthetics , history , ecology , archaeology , biology , physics , theology , quantum mechanics
Pryor's new book, Living with Tiny Aliens: The Image of God for the Anthropocene , uses astrobiology to explore integrated and nonanthropocentric views of the IMAGO DEI with a particular emphasis on planetarity and intra‐action. This review and reflection articulates and amplifies Pryor's view of humans in the context of Earth, arguing for ideas of both Anthropocene and IMAGO DEI that are anthropic (aware of the human context) but not anthropocentric (over‐valuing humanity). It raises a caution about how historical and normative claims of progress and transcendence than can color both in unhelpful ways.