Environmental Reflections on the Anthropocene (eBook, PDF)

Nature Transformed
Redaktion: Ricci, Gabriel R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Incorporating the intellectual history of disciplines from across the humanities, this volume provides a select orientation to the experience of nature from the ancient world to the Anthropocene. This book will be particularly useful to academics, scholars and researchers in philosophy, anthropology, literature, history and critical theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040224915
• Artikelnr.: 72336090

Autorenporträt

Gabriel R. Ricci is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College, USA, and teaches environmental ethics, political philosophy and ancient philosophy. He has published on phenomenology and time consciousness, and politics, technology and ethics. Recent publications with Routledge include Natural Communions (2019) and The Persistence of Critical Theory (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

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.
Re-Centering the Ancient-Enduring Indigenous Lens 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