- 280 pages
- English
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About this book
Incorporating the intellectual history of disciplines from across the humanities, including environmental anthropology, philosophy, ethics, literature, history, science and technology studies, this volume provides a select orientation to the experience of nature from the ancient world to the Anthropocene.
Taking its momentum from the emerging environmental humanities, this collection integrates Western, Indigenous, postcolonial, feminist and eco-spiritual perspectives that address pressing environmental concerns and reimagine the place of humans within the natural world. Across thirteen chapters, the contributors discuss the blending of environmental concerns with political and moral questions and encourage collaborative methods across disciplines to address dialectical tensions between culture and nature. They draw on a wide range of critical perspectives, provide a historical framework and speak to global environmental pressures from multiple standpoints. The global approach adopted throughout highlights the various realities of the growing ecological crisis experienced across the world.
Written to appeal to a broad range of readers across the environmental humanities, this edited book will be particularly useful to academics, scholars and researchers in philosophy, anthropology, literature, history and critical theory.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Nature in the Anthropocene
- 2 On the Severance of Production from Reproduction: Simone de Beauvoir and Ecofeminist Critical Theory
- 3 Nature, Art and Gender in Renaissance Italy: A Counter Narrative
- 4 Universal Application: The Natural World as Metaphor and Phenomenon in Melville, Thoreau, and Dickinson
- 5 The Raging Torrent: Myth, Metaphor and Technology
- 6 The Ecology of the Color Purple in Greco-Roman Antiquity
- 7 The Byzantine Experience of the Natural World
- 8 An Eco-Spirituality of Wonder: An Aesthetic-Ethical Response to Myriad Nature
- 9 The Sovereign Body of Country
- 10 When Coyote Stole Rabbit’s Heart: O’odham Himdag, Environmental Sovereignty, and the End of the American Empire
- 11 Ancient? Enduring? An Indigenous Lens on Time, Being, and Conversation:
- 12 Permaculture as a System for Designing Sustainable Human Settlements: Ahead of its Time or Impossible Dream?
- 13 A Paradox of the Anthropocene: The Radicalization of Techno-Scientific Modernity and the Future of Solar Geoengineering
- Index