The Natural Contract

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The Natural Contract By Michel Serres, Elizabeth MacArthur, William Paulson
Publisher: Univ ersity of Mic higan Pre ss 1995 | 136 Pages | ISBN: 0472065491 , 0472095498 | PDF | 1 MB




Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book Le Contrat Naturel, Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants.

World history is often referred to as the story of human conflict. Those struggles that are seen as our history must now include the uncontrolled violence that humanity perpetrates upon the earth, and the uncontrollable menace to human life posed by the earth in reaction to this violence. Just as a social contract once brought order to human relations, Serres believes that we must now sign a \"natural contract\" with the earth to bring balance and reciprocity to our relations with the planet that gives us life. Our survival depends on the extent to which humans join together and act globally, on an earth now conceived as an entity.

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