1st Edition
Environmental Reflections on the Anthropocene Nature Transformed
Introduction
Gabriel R. Ricci
1 Nature in the Anthropocene
Manuel Arias-Maldonado
2 On the Severance of Production from Reproduction: Simone de Beauvoir and Ecofeminist Critical Theory
J.M. Bernstein
3 Nature, Art and Gender in Renaissance Italy: A Counter Narrative
Mary D. Garrard
4 Universal Application: The Natural World as Metaphor and Phenomenon in Melville, Thoreau, and Dickinson
Brian Yothers
5 The Raging Torrent: Myth, Metaphor and Technology
Patricia Likos Ricci
6 The Ecology of the Color Purple in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Christopher Schliephake
7 The Byzantine Experience of the Natural World
Kirsty Stewart
8 An Eco-Spirituality of Wonder: An Aesthetic-Ethical Response to Myriad Nature
Carol Wayne White
9 The Sovereign Body of Country
Jennifer Evans
10 When Coyote Stole Rabbit’s Heart: O’odham Himdag, Environmental Sovereignty, and the End of the American Empire
David Martínez
11 Ancient? Enduring? An Indigenous Lens on Time, Being, and Conversation
Phoebe Godfrey and Jacqline Wolf Tice
12 Permaculture as a System for Designing Sustainable Human Settlements: Ahead of its Time or Impossible Dream?
Caroline Smith and Nick Towle
13 A Paradox of the Anthropocene: The Radicalization of Techno-Scientific Modernity and the Future of Solar Geoengineering
Jean-Daniel Collomb
Biography
Gabriel R. Ricci is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College, USA, and teaches environmental ethics, political philosophy and ancient philosophy. He has published on phenomenology and time consciousness, and politics, technology and ethics. Recent publications with Routledge include Natural Communions (2019) and The Persistence of Critical Theory (2017).
