ISBN:
1350111155
,
9781350111189
,
9781350111165
,
9781350111158
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
Series Statement:
Environmental Cultures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
202.1
Keywords:
Animism
;
Environmental ethics
;
Nature Effect of human beings on
;
Global environmental change
;
Literary theory
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction -- 1. Radical Animism: Climate Change and Other Transformations -- 2. Surviving the Anthropocene: Revolutionary Rhythms -- 3. Animals at the End of the World: The Evolution of Life and Language -- 4. Hatching: Psychoanalysis and the Textual Unconscious Conclusion Notes -- References Index -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Abstract:
The reckoning of climate change calls for us to fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality, superiority and power. Drawing on a wide range of modern writers and thinkers - from Freud and Darwin to Latour and Derrida, from Shakespeare and Carroll to Woolf and Kafka - Radical Animism develops a new theory of life for a planet in crisis. In this original and timely work, Jemma Deer reframes our thinking of the Anthropocene with ideas from anthropology, astronomy, deconstruction, evolutionary biology, psychoanalysis, quantum physics and veganism. Through readings that are both inventive and compelling, this book shows how 'literary animism' - the active and transformative life of literature - can open our thinking to the immense power of the non-human world
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also published in print.
,
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350111189
URL:
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