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Climate Change and the Humanities
Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis
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Climate Change and the Humanities
Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis
About this book
This volume of essays fills a lacunae in the current climate change debate by bringing new perspectives on the role of humanities scholars within this debate. The humanities have historically played an important role in the various debates on environment, climate and society. The past two decades especially have seen a resurfacing of these environmental concerns across humanities disciplines in the wake of what has been termed climate change. This book argues that these disciplines should be more confident and vocal in responding to climate change while questioning the way in which the climate change debate is currently being conducted in academic, political and social arenas. Addressing climate change through the varied approaches of the humanities means re-thinking and re-evaluating its fundamental assumptions and responses to perceived crisis through the lens of history, philosophy and literature. The volume aims thus to be a catalyst for emerging scholarship in this field and to appeal to an academic and popular readership.
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Yes, you can access Climate Change and the Humanities by Alexander Elliott, James Cullis, Vinita Damodaran, Alexander Elliott,James Cullis,Vinita Damodaran in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Modern History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Editors and Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Historical
- The Importance of the Humanities to the Climate Change Debate
- Understanding Climate Change Historically
- The Culture of Islands and the History of Environmental Concern
- The Locality in the Anthropocene: Perspectives on the Environmental History of Eastern India
- Plastic Daffodils: The Pastoral, the Picturesque, and Cultural Environmentalism
- Part II Contemporary
- Cli-Fi? Literature, Ecocriticism, History
- Climate Change as a Challenge to Philosophy
- Belief in Change: The Role of Media and Communications in Driving Action on Climate Change
- Part III Future
- Climate Change and Future Aesthetics
- Investment Without Return: On Futures that Will Never Be Ours
- Climate Change and Moral Philosophy
- Index