Second Nature : Rethinking the Natural through Politics /

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"This volume examines the nature/politics relationship anew in the wake of recent critiques of the category of "nature." Its essays draw on contemporary and canonical thinkers to reflect on "second nature" as a site or paradigm of political contest and intervene into debates...

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Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Archer, Crina
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Philosophy of nature.
Nature > Political aspects.
Human ecology > Political aspects.
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Environmentalism > Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Philosophie de la nature.
Environnementalisme > Philosophie.
Écologie humaine > Philosophie.
Nature > Aspect politique.
Écologie humaine > Aspect politique.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Politics on the Terrain of Second Nature / Crina Archer, Laura Ephraim, and Lida Maxwell
  • Necessity and Fortune: Machiavelli's Politics of Nature / Yves Winter
  • Burning the Dead and the Ways of Nature / Thomas Laqueur
  • Corpses for Kilowatts?: Mourning, Justice, Burial, and the Ends of Humanism / Bonnie Honig
  • The "Unnatural Growth of the Natural": Reconsidering Nature and Artifice in the Context of Biotechnology / Ashley Biser
  • Potentialities of Second Nature: Agamben on Human Rights / Ayten Gündoğdu
  • The Utopian Content of Reification: Adorno's Critical Social Theory of Nature / Christopher Buck
  • From Nature to Matter / Jane Bennett.

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