From Ego to Eco : Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (244 pages)
- Nature, Culture and Literature Series ; v.13 .
- Nature, Culture and Literature Series .
Intro -- From Ego to Eco: Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part 1: Ecocentric Ways of Being: Human-Nature Continuities in Philosophy and Poetry -- 1 The Language of Nature: Non-differentiation and Concept Formation in Early Modern Empiricisms -- 2 Environmental Modernism: Ecocentric Conceptions of the Self and the Emotions in the Works of R.M. Rilke and W.B. Yeats -- 3 Hortus Deliciarum/Garden of Delights: A Somatic Interpretation -- 4 From Dead Letters to Living Writing: The Aesthetic of Life in Novalis -- Part 2: Ecocentric Dwelling: The Global and the Local -- 5 A Voice from the Land: The Ecopoetics of a Gaeltacht Oral Poet -- 6 Murder in a Meadow: Environmental and Cultural Extinction in Cathal Ó Searcaigh's "Scrúdú Coinsiasa Roimh Dhul Chun Suain" -- 7 "Poetry's a Line of Defence": Ecopoetry and Politics in the 21st Century -- 8 Greening Democracy: A Defence of Critical Political Theory -- Part 3: Ecocentric Vision: Zoomorphism and Animal Perspectives -- 9 Dark Ecology and Black Comedy in Patrick McGinley's Foggage -- 10 Above, Below and Behind the Camera: The Perspective of Animals -- Part 4: Ecocentrism at the Limits: Animal Encounters -- 11 Against Exuberant Ecocentrism: Kafka, Coetzee and Transformative Mimesis -- Index.
From Ego to Eco - Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism investigates philosophical, political, and aesthetic formations of ecocentrism, arguing that ecocentrism is a phenomenon that can be observed in a broad variety of national and historical contexts.