Denaturalizing ecological politics : alienation from nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and beyond / / Andrew Biro

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456324003321
• Autore: Biro Andrew <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005; ©2005
• ISBN: 9786611995416; 1-4426-7383-4; 0-8020-3794-1; 1-281-99541-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.2/01
• Soggetti: Human ecology - Philosophy; Philosophy of nature; Nature - Political aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Nature or 'Nature'? Ecological Politics and the Postmodern Condition -- 1. Ecocentrism and the Defence of Nature -- 2. Postmodernism: The Critique of 'Nature' -- 3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Modernity and the Historicization of Alienation -- 4. Karl Marx: Objectification and Alienation under Capitalism -- 5. Theodor W. Adorno: From Udeis to Utopia -- 6. Herbert Marcuse: Basic and Surplus Alienation -- 7. Denaturalizing Ecological Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The possibility of bringing the insights of modern political theory to bear on the problems of human ecology has long been plagued by disagreements over the category of nature itself. But with Denaturalizing Ecological Politics, Andrew Biro has found a way of rescuing environmentalism from the ideological trap of naturalism.Biro develops an environmental political theory that takes seriously both the materiality of the ecological crises generated by industrial and post-; industrial society and the anti-foundationalist critiques of ?nature? developed in postmodern social theory. He argues that the theoretical basis for ecological politics can be better advanced through the lens of alienation from nature, sidestepping some of the pitfalls of debates over conceptions of nature itself.Biro traces the development of the concept of alienation from nature through four modern political thinkers ? Rousseau, Marx, Adorno, and Marcuse ? each of whom are read as arguing that human beings are not biologically separate from the rest of nature, but are nevertheless historically differentiated from it through the self-conscious transformation of the natural environment. In so doing, Biro provides the starting point for a ?denaturalized? rethinking of ecological politics.

The Edinburgh companion to Atlantic literary studies / / edited by Leslie Elizabeth Eckel and Clare Frances Elliot

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910794705203321
• Autore: Eckel Leslie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh, [Scotland] : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-4744-1828-7; 1-4744-0295-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 pages)
• Collana: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Disciplina: 809.03
• Soggetti: Literature, Modern - History and criticism; American literature - History and criticism; Literature and transnationalism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The New Atlantic Literary Studies -- I. Atlantic Cultural Geographies -- 1. The Silkworm and the Bee: Georgia, Cognitive Mapping, and the Atlantic Labour System in Boltzius and Thomson -- 2. From Auburn to Upper Canada: Pastoral and Georgic Villages in the British Atlantic World -- 3. London’; s Pan-Atlantic Public Sphere: Luso-Hispanic Journals, 1808–1830 -- 4. Emerson’s Atlantic States -- II. Atlantic Mobilities -- 5. Shifting Cultures and Transatlantic Imitations: The Case of Burney, Bennett and Read -- 6. ‘We are where we are’: Colm Tóibín’s BROOKLYN, Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment -- 7. Contemporary Atlantic Literature and the Unhappiness of Travel -- III. The Black Atlantic -- 8. Writing Race and Slavery in the Francophone Atlantic: Transatlantic Connections and Contradictions in Claire de Duras’s Ourika and Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal -- 9. Crosscurrents of Black Utopianism: Martin R. Delany’s and Frederick Douglass’s Countercultural Atlantic -- 10. Black Diaspora Literature and the Question of Slavery -- IV. Atlantic Genders and Sexualities -- 11. The Early Modern Queer Atlantic: Narratives of Sex and Gender on New World Soil -- 12. ‘Local locas’: Trans-Antillean Queerness in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Sirena Selena -- 13. Queer Atlantic Modernism and Masculinity in Claude McKay’s Banjo and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night -- V. Reform and Revolution -- 14. Urban Reform, Transatlantic Movements and US Writers: 1837–1861 -- 15. Early Feminism and the Circulation of Self-Reliance in the Atlantic World -- 16. Suffragette Celebrity at Home from Abroad: Feminist Periodicals and Transatlantic Circulation -- VI. Atlantic Exchanges -- 17. An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the Origins of United States Literature -- 18. Taming the American Shrew: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s New Woman and the Transatlantic Courtship Plot -- 19. Music, Language and (Latin) American Grains: William Carlos Williams’s Voyage to Pagany and ‘The Desert Music’ -- VII. Atlantic Ecologies -- 20. ‘Calcutta still haunts my Fancy’, or the Confusion of Old and New World Ecologies in Early Caribbean Literature -- 21. ‘More Savage than Bears or Wolves’: Animals, Colonialism and the Aboriginal Atlantic -- 22. Reading the ‘Book of Nature’: Emerson, the Hunterian Museum and Transatlantic Science -- 23. Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism -- VIII. Atlantic Events -- 24. Sputniks, Ice-Picks, G.P.U.: Nabokov’s Pale Fire -- 25. ‘O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag’: Bob Dylan, the Beatles and T. S. Eliot’s Transatlantic Encounters -- 26. Unbridgeable Gaps: Time, Space and Memory in the Post-9/11 Novel -- Contributors -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: New and original collection of scholarly essays examining the literary complexities of the Atlantic world systemThis Companion offers a critical overview of the diverse and dynamic field of Atlantic literary studies, with contributions by distinguished scholars on a series of topics that define the area. The essays focus on literature and culture from first contact to the present, exploring fruitful Atlantic connections across space and time, across national cultures, and embracing literature, culture and society. This research collection proposes that the analysis of literature and culture does not depend solely upon geographical setting to uncover textual meaning. Instead, it offers Atlantic connections based around migration, race, gender and sexuality, ecologies, and other significant ideological crossovers in the Atlantic World. The result is an exciting new critical map written by leading international researchers of a lively and expanding field. Key FeaturesOffers an introduction to the growing field of Atlantic literary studies by showcasing current work engaged in debate around historical, cultural and literary issues in the Atlantic WorldIncludes 26 newly-commissioned scholarly essays by leading experts in Atlantic literary studiesFuses breadth of historical knowledge with depth of literary scholarshipConsiders the full range of intercultural encounters around and across the Atlantic Ocean