Introduction: Politics on the Terrain of Second Nature / Crina Archer, Laura Ephraim, and Lida Maxwell -- Necessity and Fortune: Machiavelli's Politics of Nature / Yves Winter -- Burning the Dead and the Ways of Nature / Thomas Laqueur -- Corpses for Kilowatts?: Mourning, Justice, Burial, and the Ends of Humanism / Bonnie Honig -- The "Unnatural Growth of the Natural": Reconsidering Nature and Artifice in the Context of Biotechnology / Ashley Biser -- Potentialities of Second Nature: Agamben on Human Rights / Ayten Gündoğdu -- The Utopian Content of Reification: Adorno's Critical Social Theory of Nature / Christopher Buck -- From Nature to Matter / Jane Bennett
Summary
"This volume examines the nature/politics relationship anew in the wake of recent critiques of the category of "nature." Its essays draw on contemporary and canonical thinkers to reflect on "second nature" as a site or paradigm of political contest and intervene into debates about environmentalism, human rights, and more"-- Provided by publisher
