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Readings in the anthropocene : the environmental humanities, German studies, and beyond / edited by Sabine Wilke and Japhet Johnstone.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Johnstone, Japhet, 1979- editor.
Wilke, Sabine, 1957- editor.
Series:
New directions in German studies ; Volume 18.
New directions in German studies ; Vol. 18
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Authors, German.
Environmentalism in literature.
Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene.
Geology, Stratigraphic.
German literature--History and criticism.
German literature.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations, tables.
Place of Publication:
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Summary:
"Readings in the Anthropocene brings together scholars from German Studies and beyond to interpret the German tradition of the last two hundred years from a perspective that is mindful of the challenge posed by the concept of the Anthropocene. This new age of man, unofficially pronounced in 2000, holds that humans are becoming a geological force in shaping the Earth's future. Among the biggest challenges facing our future are climate change, accelerated species loss, and a radical transformation of land use. What are the historical, philosophical, cultural, literary, and artistic responses to this new concept? The essays in this volume bring German culture to bear on what it means to live in the Anthropocene from a historical, ethical, and aesthetic perspective."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Contents:
pt. 1. Entanglements
pt. 2. Excess/sustainability
pt. 3. Periodization and scale
pt. 4. Diffusion, the lithic, and a planetary praxis.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781501307782
1501307789
9781501307768
1501307762
9781501307775
1501307770
OCLC:
1002006804

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