Ecopolitics [[electronic resource] ] : The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450333903321
• Autore: Conley Verena Andermatt
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 1996
• ISBN: 1-134-85068-9; 1-280-47845-4; 0-203-01227-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Collana: Opening Out: Feminism for Today
• Disciplina: 304.2; 363.7
• Soggetti: 20th century; Ecology; Environmentalism; France; Green movement; History; Philosophy; Political ecology - France; Green movement - France; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A First Type of Disparagement: This Return of the Full Subject and the Division Between Nature and Culture; 2. A Second Type of Disparagement: Denaturing or Ecology as Simulacrum; 3. Emergence of Ecology: Beyond Dialetics and Existential Humanism; 4. Chaos and Ethics: From Science to Praxis; 5. Motor Ecology; 6. New Ecological Territories; 7. Everyday Life: Ecological Practices; 8. Back to Writing: The Fate of Post-1968 Feminine Writing; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Ecopolitics is a study of environmental awareness - or non-awareness - in contemporary French theory. Arguing that it is now impossible not to think in an ecological way, Verena Andermatt Conley traces the roots of today's concern for the environment back to the intellectual climate of the late 50's and 60's. The author considers key texts by influential figures such as Michael Serres, Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Michel de Certeau, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray. Ecopolitics rehabilitates some