Poetics of the Earth: Natural History and Human History

ISBN-13: 9780367729806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str.

Augustin Berque

Opis

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of Eastern and Western thought on natural and human history. It draws on recent biological research to show how the processes of evolution and history both function according to the same principles.

Spis treści

Preface: Re-naturalizing culture, Re-culturating nature through history  Part I: Re-worlding  1. The poem’s reversal  2. Destinies of the subject  3. Destinies of the objects  4. Acosmia, or Cosmicity?  Part II: Re-concretizing 5. Human mediance  6. Growing together  7. Including the middle  Part III: Re-engaging 8. Nature makes sense for nature…and beyond  9. The contingency of life itself  10. History, evolution, trajection  Conclusion: Earth, to be sure, is the name we give it, but Earth is the one that asserts us

O autorze

Augustin Berque has recently retired as Director of Studies in Environmental Philosophy and Geography at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France. He was the recipient of the 2018 International Cosmos Prize.

Translator Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon is Professor of Humanities at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. She studied at the Sorbonne (Licence d’Anglais, DES d’Anglais), France, and the University of California at San Diego, California (PhD in Comparative Literature), USA. Her publications include articles on the novel as well as translations of six philosophical books and numerous articles.