Readings in the Anthropocene : the environmental humanities, German studies, and beyond /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional,
2017
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| Series: | New directions in German studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Rethinking Literary History, Critical Reading Practices, and Cultural Studies in the Anthropocene Sabine Wilke; Part I Entanglements; 1 A World Without Us: Aesthetic, Literary, and Scientific Imaginations of Nature Beyond Humankind Wolfgang Struck; 2 Hybrid Environments in the Anthropocene: Recent Fiction Caroline Schaumann and Heather I. Sullivan.
- 3 Looking Behind Walls: Literary and Filmic Imaginations of Nature, Humanity, and the Anthropocene in Die Wand Sabine FrostPart II Excess/Sustainability; 4 Care and Forethought: The Idea of Sustainability in Hegel's Practical Philosophy Klaus Vieweg; 5 Save the Forest, Burn Books: On the Science and Poetics of Sustainability in Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Markus Wilczek; 6 Mocking the Anthropocene: Caricatures of Man-Made Landscapes in German Satirical Magazines from the Fin de Siècle Evi Zemanek.
- 7 The Darkness of the Anthropocene: Wolfgang Hilbig's Alte Abdeckerei Sabine NöllgenPart III Periodization and Scale; 8 Immanuel Kant, the Anthropocene, and the Idea of Environmental Cosmopolitanism Amos Nascimento; 9 Adalbert Stifter and the Gentle Anthropocene Sean Ireton; 10 Engineering the Anthropocene: Technology, Ambition, and Enlightenment in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter Katie Ritson; Part IV Diffusion, the Lithic, and a Planetary Praxis; 11 Petrifiction: Reimagining the Mine in German Romanticism Jason Groves.
- 12 The Anthroposcene of Literature: Diffuse Dwelling in Graham Swift and W.G. Sebald Bernhard Malkmus13 Planetary Praxis in the Anthropocene: An Ethics and Poetics for a New Geological Age Sabine Wilke; Epilogue: The Anthropocene in German Perspective Axel Goodbody; Index.
