Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene
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Thinking about animals in the age of the Anthropocene
(Ecocritical theory and practice)
Lexington Books, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-244) and index
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Description
The term "Anthropocene", the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic (human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our impact on the living conditions of animals, others question conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals, and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world, as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of animals as they used to be before mankinds rise to global ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Once upon a Time in the Anthropocene
Morten Tonnessen & Kristin Armstrong Oma
Part I: Beyond Human Eyes
Chapter 1: Held Hostage by the Anthropocene
Susan M. Rustick
Chapter 2: Dangerous Intersubjectivities from Dionysos to Kanzi
Louise Westling
Chapter 3: Animals in a Noisy World
Almo Farina
Part II: Phenomenology in the Anthropocene
Chapter 4: A Phenomenological Approach to the Imaginary of Animals
Annabelle Dufourcq
Chapter 5: Speaking with Animals: Philosophical Interspecies Investigations
Eva Meijer
Chapter 6: Desire and/or Need for Life? Towards a Phenomenological Dialectic of the Organism
Sebastjan Voeroes & Peter Gaitsch
Part III: Beast No More
Chapter 7: Understanding the Meaning of Wolf Resurgence, Ecosemiotics, and Landscape Hermeneutics
Martin Drenthen
Chapter 8: Behaving like an Animal? Some Implications of the Philosophical Debate on the Animality in Man
Carlo Brentari
Chapter 9: Seeing with Dolphins: Reflections on the Salience of Cetaceans
Katharine Dow
Part IV: New Beginnings
Chapter 10: Out of the Metazoic? Animals as a Transitional Form in Planetary Evolution
Bronislaw Szerszynski
Chapter 11: Dangerous Animals and Our Search for Meaningful Relationships with Nature in the Anthropocene
Mateusz Tokarski
Chapter 12: Don Quixote's Windmills
Gisela Kaplan
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