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Ecology without nature : rethinking environmental aesthetics / Timothy Morton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2009Edition: First Harvard University Press paperback editionDescription: viii, 249 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674034853
  • 0674034856
  • 9780674024342
  • 0674024346
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 820.9/36 23
LOC classification:
  • PR448.E58 M67 2009
Contents:
Introduction: Toward a theory of ecological criticism -- The art of environmental language: "I can't believe it isn't nature!" -- Romanticism and the environmental subject -- Imagining ecology without nature.
Summary: In 'Ecology Without Nature', Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature that most writers on the topic promote: they propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the 'nature' they revere.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Toward a theory of ecological criticism -- The art of environmental language: "I can't believe it isn't nature!" -- Romanticism and the environmental subject -- Imagining ecology without nature.

In 'Ecology Without Nature', Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature that most writers on the topic promote: they propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the 'nature' they revere.

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