Ecology without nature : rethinking environmental aesthetics / Timothy Morton.

By:

Morton, Timothy, 1968- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: 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:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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.

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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