Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe
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2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781666901849 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781666901849 (ISBN)
This book re-envisions the cosmos with the holistic, spherical imagination of the Middle Ages, figured in circles, cycles, epicycles, equants, and offers a new perspective on the power of images and metaphors to shape the way humans see the universe and their own role in it.
In Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe, Jean-Marie Kauth shows how counter-ecological metaphors sprung from the cosmology of the Copernican Revolution influence us still in unexpected, maladaptive ways, nurturing conceptions of the world that are not only incorrect but enabling of ecocide. She argues that grasping these underlying paradigms may help us to alter our thinking and make the radical transformations needed to counter the forward motion of our capitalist, post-industrial society.
In Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe, Jean-Marie Kauth shows how counter-ecological metaphors sprung from the cosmology of the Copernican Revolution influence us still in unexpected, maladaptive ways, nurturing conceptions of the world that are not only incorrect but enabling of ecocide. She argues that grasping these underlying paradigms may help us to alter our thinking and make the radical transformations needed to counter the forward motion of our capitalist, post-industrial society.
Jean-Marie Kauth, PhD, MPH is professor of languages and literature at Benedictine University. She is a member of APHA's Children’s Environmental Health Committee of the Environment Section and was recently appointed to the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC), a federal advisory committee to the EPA.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: ‘Till by Turning, Turning We Come Round Right
Introduction: Cosmology, Ecology
Chapter 1: Dante’s Cosmos
Chapter 2: Enlightenment Echoes
Chapter 3: The Infinite Line
Chapter 4: Environmental Legacies
Chapter 5: Paradigm Shifts
Chapter 6: Alternate Metaphors
Conclusions
References
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Environment and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 b/w photos |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 531 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781666901849 / 9781666901849 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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