Nature and Its Unnatural Relations
Points of Access
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 8. July 2024
364 pages
978-1-6669-4377-1 (ISBN)
Description
Consisting of contributions from a host of international scholars (in fields as diverse as literature, architecture, philosophy, and education), Alain Beauclair and Josh Toth's Nature and Its Unnatural Relations: Points of Access intercedes in ongoing debates about accessing, defining, and respecting a world humans continue to misuse and misunderstand-and that, as a result, is becoming increasingly inhospitable. The chapters shuttle between a variety of aesthetic and philosophical concerns-from theology and Biblical interpretation to colonialism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, worlding, posthumanism, and speculative realism. These varied approaches are united by a single aporetic thread: efforts to surmount the problem of "human access" invariably risk repeating (ever more blindly) the violence and immorality of anthropocentrism. We seem trapped in the cul-de-sac of the Anthropocene. To discover potential new exits, the contributors consider whether it is possible or advisable to abandon so-called "correlationism"-of art, of literature, of technology. If it is, then how? If not, how might we more ethically reembrace our innately corruptive relations with a world of non-human others? How might we free "nature" (finally) from the demands of human action and human thought without mendaciously reinscribing humanity's distance from it or denying a proximity that is only traversable by artificial means?
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-4377-1 (9781666943771)
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07/2024
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Persons
Alain Beauclair is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at MacEwan University.
Josh Toth is professor of English at MacEwan University.
Josh Toth is professor of English at MacEwan University.
Content
Introduction: What we Know (to be Unrelatable)
by Alain Beauclair and Josh Toth
Prologue: How to Advocate-Radically, Kindly [A Transcript, A Conversation]
by Tracey Lindberg
Part I: Outside Structures
Chapter 1: Encountering the Mountain: A Sketch for a Hermeneutics of Nature
by Ruairidh J. Brown
Chapter 2: Kawabata's Sealed Play: Restoration and Reenchantment
by Eric Bronson
Chapter 3: A Principled Account of Artistic Sublimity in Kant's Critique of Judgment
by Joshua D.F. Hooke
Chapter 4: Architecture and the Ends of Man: Derrida, Latour, Eisenman
by Henrik Oxvig and Dag Petersson
Part II: Before Nature
Chapter 5: Nature and Dominion in Genesis
by Robert Burch
Chapter 6: Making the Hands Impure: On the Role of Orality in Becoming Responsible for the More-Than-Human World
by Kaleb Cohen
Chapter 7: The Narrator's "Dialectic of Enlightenment" in Howard O'Hagan's Tay John
by Sergiy Yakovenko
Chapter 8: Romanticism and the Anthropocene: Mirrors and Inversions in Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, and Melville
by Samantha C. Harvey
Part III: Reading Otherwise
Chapter 9: Beyond Negative Ecology: Earth Art in a Time of Climate Crisis
by John Culbert
Chapter 10: Re-calibrating Responses: De-conditioning Our Relationship to the Natural World Through Literature
by Jennifer Carmichael
Chapter 11: I Don't Believe in the Sun: Symbolic Action and Mythic Explanation in Klara and the Sun
by Ammon Allred
Chapter 12: Badiou's Scientific Event and Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
by Adriel M. Trott
Epilogue: Moral Grandstanding
by Claire Colebrook
by Alain Beauclair and Josh Toth
Prologue: How to Advocate-Radically, Kindly [A Transcript, A Conversation]
by Tracey Lindberg
Part I: Outside Structures
Chapter 1: Encountering the Mountain: A Sketch for a Hermeneutics of Nature
by Ruairidh J. Brown
Chapter 2: Kawabata's Sealed Play: Restoration and Reenchantment
by Eric Bronson
Chapter 3: A Principled Account of Artistic Sublimity in Kant's Critique of Judgment
by Joshua D.F. Hooke
Chapter 4: Architecture and the Ends of Man: Derrida, Latour, Eisenman
by Henrik Oxvig and Dag Petersson
Part II: Before Nature
Chapter 5: Nature and Dominion in Genesis
by Robert Burch
Chapter 6: Making the Hands Impure: On the Role of Orality in Becoming Responsible for the More-Than-Human World
by Kaleb Cohen
Chapter 7: The Narrator's "Dialectic of Enlightenment" in Howard O'Hagan's Tay John
by Sergiy Yakovenko
Chapter 8: Romanticism and the Anthropocene: Mirrors and Inversions in Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, and Melville
by Samantha C. Harvey
Part III: Reading Otherwise
Chapter 9: Beyond Negative Ecology: Earth Art in a Time of Climate Crisis
by John Culbert
Chapter 10: Re-calibrating Responses: De-conditioning Our Relationship to the Natural World Through Literature
by Jennifer Carmichael
Chapter 11: I Don't Believe in the Sun: Symbolic Action and Mythic Explanation in Klara and the Sun
by Ammon Allred
Chapter 12: Badiou's Scientific Event and Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
by Adriel M. Trott
Epilogue: Moral Grandstanding
by Claire Colebrook
