| Description |
1 online resource (x, 180 pages) |
| Series |
Key issues in environment and sustainability |
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Key issues in environment and sustainability
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Definitions -- Genealogies -- Nature and Culture -- The Anthropos -- Politics -- Aesthetics -- Biopolitics -- Energy -- Scales I: The Planetary -- Scales II: Deep Time -- Conclusion: How Western is the Anthropocene? |
| Summary |
The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural sciences but also for a synthetic approach bringing together insights from the various subdisciplines in the humanities and social sciences which have addressed themselves to ecological questions in the past. This book is an introduction to, and structured survey of, the attempts that have been made to take the measure of the Anthropocene, and explores some of the paradigmatic problems which it raises. The difficulties of an introduction to the Anthropocene lie not only in the disciplinary breadth of the subject, but also in the rapid pace at which the surrounding debates have been, and still are, unfolding. This introduction proposes a conceptual map which, however provisionally, charts these ongoing discussions across a variety of scientific and humanistic disciplines. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in the environmental humanities, particularly in literary and cultural studies, history, philosophy, and environmental studies |
| Notes |
"Earthscan from Routledge." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Eva Horn is a Professor at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Hannes Bergthaller is a Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 23, 2019) |
| Subject |
Biopolitics
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Environment (Aesthetics)
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Human ecology and the humanities
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Human ecology
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Nature (Aesthetics)
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Sustainability
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Biopolitics.
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Environment (Aesthetics)
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Human ecology and the humanities.
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Human ecology.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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NATURE / Ecology
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Nature (Aesthetics)
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Sustainability.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bergthaller, Hannes, author
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Routledge (Firm)
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| LC no. |
2019029878 |
| ISBN |
0429439733 |
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0429800894 |
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0429800908 |
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0429800916 |
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9780429439735 |
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9780429800894 |
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9780429800900 |
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9780429800917 |
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