From ego to eco : mapping shifts from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism / edited by Sabine Lenore Müller, Tina-Karen Pusse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Müller, Sabine Lenore, editor.

Pusse, Tina-Karen, 1973- editor.

Series:

Nature, culture and literature ; Volume 13.

Nature, culture and literature ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 236 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]

Summary:

From Ego to Eco – Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism investigates philosophical, political and aesthetic formations of ecocentrism. Representing a variety of disciplines and testing a broad scope of critical approaches, the contributors of this volume argue that anthropocentrism is not - as often claimed - a predominant world view but, rather, a widely contested concept. Within various historical and national contexts, the individual contributors of this book discuss the significance and relevance of ecocentrism and offer new avenues to emerging discourses in the humanities. Contributors are: Darrell Arnold, Roman Bartosch, Aengus Daly, Gearoid Denvir, Elisabeth Jütten, Karla McManus, Sabine Lenore Müller, Maureen O’ Connor, Lillis Ó Laoire, Helen Phelan, Tina-Karen Pusse, and Christian Schmitt-Kilb.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Sabine Lenore Müller and Tina-Karen Pusse

Ecocentric Ways of Being: Human-Nature Continuities in Philosophy and Poetry

Chapter 1: The Language of Nature: Non-differentiation and Concept Formation in Early Modern Empiricisms / Aengus Daly

Chapter 2: Environmental Modernism: Ecocentric Conceptions of the Self and the Emotions in the Works of R.M. Rilke and W.B. Yeats / Sabine Lenore Müller

Chapter 3: Hortus Deliciarum/Garden of Delights: A Somatic Interpretation / Helen Phelan

Chapter 4: From Dead Letters to Living Writing: The Aesthetic of Life in Novalis / Elisabeth Jütten

Ecocentric Dwelling: The Global and the Local

Chapter 5: A Voice from the Land: The Ecopoetics of a Gaeltacht Oral Poet / Gearóid Denvir

Chapter 6: Murder in a Meadow: Environmental and Cultural Extinction in Cathal Ó Searcaigh’s “Scrúdú Coinsiasa Roimh Dhul Chun Suain” / Lillis Ó Laoire

Chapter 7: “Poetry’s a Line of Defence”: Ecopoetry and Politics in the 21st Century / Christian Schmitt-Kilb

Chapter 8: Greening Democracy: A Defence of Critical Political Theory / Darrell Arnold

Ecocentric Vision: Zoomorphism and Animal Perspectives

Chapter 9: Dark Ecology and Black Comedy in Patrick McGinley’s Foggage / Maureen O’Connor

Above, Below and Behind the Camera: The Perspective of Animals / Karla McManus

Ecocentrism at the Limits: Animal Encounters

Against Exuberant Ecocentrism: Kafka, Coetzee and Transformative Mimesis / Roman Bartosch.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-35832-3

OCLC:

1004251158

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004358324 DOI