Readings in the Anthropocene - The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond

Readings in the Anthropocene brings together scholars from German Studies and beyond to interpret the German tradition of the last two hundred years from a perspective that is mindful of the challenge posed by the concept of the Anthropocene. This new age of man, unofficially pronounced in 2000, holds that humans are becoming a geological force in shaping the Earth''s future. Among the biggest challenges facing our future are climate change, accelerated species loss, and a radical transformation of land use. What are the historical, philosophical, cultural, literary, and artistic responses to this new concept? The essays in this volume bring German culture to bear on what it means to live in the Anthropocene from a historical, ethical, and aesthetic perspective.>

About the author

Sabine Wilke is Professor of German at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, where she is also associated with European Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory. Her research and teaching interests include modern German literature and culture, intellectual history and theory, and cultural studies. She has written books and articles on body constructions in modern German literature and culture, German unification, the history of German film and theater, contemporary German authors and filmmakers, German colonialism and the overlapping concerns of postcolonialism and ecocriticism.Japhet Johnstone is project manager and translator at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He is co-editor of Crimes of Passion: Representations of Sexual Pathology in the Early Twentieth Century (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Japhet Johnstone, Sabine Wilke, Sabine (University of Washington Wilke
• Assisted by: Japhet Johnstone (Editor), Japhet (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg Johnstone (Editor), Sabine Wilke (Editor), Sabine (University of Washington Wilke (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781501307751
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-0775-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: New Directions in German Studies; New Directions in German Studi; New Directions in German Studi; New Directions in German Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies