Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene
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Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene

About this book

The term "Anthropocene", the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic (human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our impact on the living conditions of animals, others question conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals, and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world, as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of animals as they used to be before mankind´s rise to global ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?

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Yes, you can access Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene by Morten Tønnessen,Kristin Armstrong Oma,Silver Rattasepp in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism & Nature. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9798216217046
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism & Nature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. I: Beyond Human Eyes
  4. Chapter One: Held Hostage by the Anthropocene
  5. Chapter Two: Dangerous Intersubjectivities from Dionysos to Kanzi
  6. Chapter Three: Animals in a Noisy World
  7. II: Phenomenology in the Anthropocene
  8. Chapter Four: A Phenomenological Approach to the Imaginary of Animals
  9. Chapter Five: Speaking with Animals
  10. Chapter Six: Desire and/or Need for Life? Toward a Phenomenological Dialectic of the Organism
  11. III: Beast No More
  12. Chapter Seven: Understanding the Meaning of Wolf Resurgence, Ecosemiotics, and Landscape Hermeneutics
  13. Chapter Eight: Behaving like an Animal?
  14. Chapter Nine: Seeing with Dolphins
  15. IV: New Beginnings
  16. Chapter Ten: Out of the Metazoic?
  17. Chapter Eleven: Dangerous Animals and Our Search for Meaningful Relationships with Nature in the Anthropocene
  18. Chapter Twelve: Don Quixote’s Windmills
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. About the Contributors