1st Edition
Environmental Reflections on the Anthropocene Nature Transformed
Incorporating the intellectual history of disciplines from across the humanities, including environmental anthropology, philosophy, ethics, literature, history, science and technology studies, this volume provides a select orientation to the experience of nature from the ancient world to the Anthropocene.
Taking its momentum from the emerging environmental humanities, this collection integrates Western, Indigenous, postcolonial, feminist and eco-spiritual perspectives that address pressing environmental concerns and reimagine the place of humans within the natural world. Across thirteen chapters, the contributors discuss the blending of environmental concerns with political and moral questions and encourage collaborative methods across disciplines to address dialectical tensions between culture and nature. They draw on a wide range of critical perspectives, provide a historical framework and speak to global environmental pressures from multiple standpoints. The global approach adopted throughout highlights the various realities of the growing ecological crisis experienced across the world.
Written to appeal to a broad range of readers across the environmental humanities, this edited book will be particularly useful to academics, scholars and researchers in philosophy, anthropology, literature, history and critical theory.
Introduction
Gabriel R. Ricci
Chapter 1. Nature in the Anthropocene
Manuel Arias-Maldonado
Chapter 2. On The Severance of Production from Reproduction: Simone de Beauvoir and Ecofeminist Critical Theory
J.M. Bernstein
Chapter 3. Nature, Art and Gender in Renaissance Italy: A Counter Narrative
Mary D. Garrard
Chapter 4. Universal Application: The Natural World as Metaphor and Phenomenon in Melville, Thoreau, and Dickinson
Brian Yothers
Chapter 5. The Raging Torrent: Myth, Metaphor and Technology
Patricia Likos Ricci
Chapter 6. The Ecology of the Color Purple in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Christopher Schliephake
Chapter 7. The Byzantine Experience of the Natural World
Kirsty Stewart
Chapter 8. An Eco-Spirituality of Wonder: An Aesthetic-Ethical Response to Myriad Nature
Carol Wayne White
Chapter 9. The Sovereign Body of Country
Jennifer Evans
Chapter 10. When Coyote Stole Rabbit’s Heart: O’odham Himdag, Environmental Sovereignty, and the End of the American Empire
David Martinez
Chapter 11. Re-Centering the Ancient-Enduring Indigenous Lens
Phoebe Godfrey and Jacqline Wolf Tice
Chapter 12. Permaculture as a System for Designing Sustainable Human Settlements: Ahead of its Time or Impossible Dream?
Caroline Smith and Nick Towle
Chapter 13. A Paradox of the Anthropocene: The Radicalization of Techno-Scientific Modernity and the Future of Solar Geoengineering
Jean-Daniel Collomb
Biography
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).
