Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny: Ecoculture, Literature and Religion

ISBN-13: 9780367730260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 146 str.

Rod Giblett

Opis

Sigmund Freud’s essay on the uncanny is celebrating a century. It is arguably his greatest and most fruitful contribution to the study of culture and the environment.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

1. The Uncanniness of Freud’s Uncanny











2. Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny











3. The Uncanny Urban Underside











4. The Uncanniness of Schelling’s Uncanny











5. The Uncanny and the Work of Walter Benjamin











6. The Uncanny Cyborg











7. The Uncanny and the Fictional















8. The Uncanny Commonwealth of Christianity











9. The Living Polytheism of the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism/Taoist Tai Chi Society

Index

O autorze

Rod Giblett is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. He is the author of many books in the environmental humanities, including People and Places of Nature and Culture (2011) and most recently Environmental Humanities and Theologies (2018), and is a pioneer in psychoanalytic ecology.