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This article aims to reconstruct James Lovelock’s development of the Gaia Hypothesis, taking into account the narrative of Hesiod, found in adaptions of Lovelock & Margulis, Latour, Haraway and Stengers.

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  1. Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Birgit Althans

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  1. Université Catholique de l’Ouest (UCO), Angers, France

    Nathanaël Wallenhorst

  2. FB Erziehungswissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Christoph Wulf

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Althans, B. (2023). Gaia. In: Wallenhorst, N., Wulf, C. (eds) Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_64

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