ANTHROPOCENE: key issues for the humanities

by HORN, EVA. BERGTHALLER, HANNES

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Title Statements

Full title :ANTHROPOCENE : key issues for the humanities.

Summary

The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural sciences but also for a synthetic approach bringing together insights from the various subdisciplines in the humanities and social sciences which have addressed themselves to ecological questions in the past. This book is an introduction to, and structured survey of, the attempts that have been made to take the measure of the Anthropocene, and explores some of the paradigmatic problems which it raises. The difficulties of an introduction to the Anthropocene lie not only in the disciplinary breadth of the subject, but also in the rapid pace at which the surrounding debates have been, and still are, unfolding. This introduction proposes a conceptual map which, however provisionally, charts these ongoing discussions across a variety of scientific and humanistic disciplines. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in the environmental humanities, particularly in literary and cultural studies, history, philosophy, and environmental studies.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:S.l
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:1 volume : : illustrations (black and white) ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1138342467, 9781138342460, 9781138342477, 1138342475
oclc:on1101279197
LC Classification:H
Dewey Decimal:304.2

Subjects

Biopolitics Biopolitique Durabilité de l'environnement ÉCOLOGIE HUMAINE Environment (Aesthetics) environnement -- esthétique human ecology Human ecology and the humanities Humanités environnementales Nature (Aesthetics) Nature (Esthétique) Sustainability