Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (Environmental Cultures) - Hardcover

Book 17 of 30: Environmental Cultures

Dr Jemma Deer

 
9781350111158: Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (Environmental Cultures)

Synopsis

The reckoning of climate change calls for us to fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality, superiority and power. Drawing on a wide range of modern writers and thinkers - from Freud and Darwin to Latour and Derrida, from Shakespeare and Carroll to Woolf and Kafka - Radical Animism develops a new theory of life for a planet in crisis. In this original and timely work, Jemma Deer reframes our thinking of the Anthropocene with ideas from anthropology, astronomy, deconstruction, evolutionary biology, psychoanalysis, quantum physics and veganism. Through readings that are both inventive and compelling, this book shows how 'literary animism' - the active and transformative life of literature - can open our thinking to the immense power of the non-human world.

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About the Author

Jemma Deer is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, USA.

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ISBN 10:  1350249408 ISBN 13:  9781350249400
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
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