Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene (eBook)

Kristin Armstrong Oma, Silver Rattasepp, Morten Tonnessen (Herausgeber)

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2016
280 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2797-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene makes connections between the Anthropocene discourse and human-animal studies, thus facilitating further interdisciplinary work on the topic of animals in the Anthropocene.

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The term "e;Anthropocene"e;, the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic (human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our impact on the living conditions of animals, others question conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals, and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world, as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of animals as they used to be before mankind's rise to global ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?

Autor

Morten Tønnessen is associate professor of philosophy at University of Stavanger.Kristin Armstrong Oma is associate professor of archaeology at the department of cultural heritage, Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger.Silver Rattasepp is a junior researcher in the Department of Semiotics at University of Tartu.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Once upon a Time in the AnthropoceneMorten Tønnessen & Kristin Armstrong OmaPart I: Beyond Human EyesChapter 1: Held Hostage by the AnthropoceneSusan M. RustickChapter 2: Dangerous Intersubjectivities from Dionysos to KanziLouise WestlingChapter 3: Animals in a Noisy WorldAlmo FarinaPart II: Phenomenology in the AnthropoceneChapter 4: A Phenomenological Approach to the Imaginary of AnimalsAnnabelle DufourcqChapter 5: Speaking with Animals: Philosophical Interspecies InvestigationsEva MeijerChapter 6: Desire and/or Need for Life? Towards a Phenomenological Dialectic of the Organism Sebastjan Vörös & Peter GaitschPart III: Beast No MoreChapter 7: Understanding the Meaning of Wolf Resurgence, Ecosemiotics, and Landscape HermeneuticsMartin DrenthenChapter 8: Behaving like an Animal? Some Implications of the Philosophical Debate on the Animality in ManCarlo BrentariChapter 9: Seeing with Dolphins: Reflections on the Salience of CetaceansKatharine DowPart IV: New BeginningsChapter 10: Out of the Metazoic? Animals as a Transitional Form in Planetary EvolutionBronislaw SzerszynskiChapter 11: Dangerous Animals and Our Search for Meaningful Relationships with Nature in the AnthropoceneMateusz TokarskiChapter 12: Don Quixote’s WindmillsGisela KaplanAbout the ContributorsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Co-Autor: Carlo Brentari, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Mateusz Tokarski, Sebastjan Voros, Louise Westling, Katharine Dow, Martin Drenthen, Annabelle Dufourcq, Almo Farina, Peter Gaitsch, Gisela Kaplan, Eva Meijer, Susan M. Rustick
• Zusatzinfo: 4 Illustrations including: - 1 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 3 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: age of man • Animal Philosophy • animals • Anthropocene • Ecocriticism • Environmental change • geological epoch • Homo sapiens • Human-animal • Interdisciplinary work • Living Conditions • speciesism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2797-3 / 1498527973
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2797-2 / 9781498527972