Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny - Ecoculture, Literature and Religion

List of contents

Acknowledgements

1. The Uncanniness of Freud’s Uncanny





2. Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny





3. The Uncanny Urban Underside





4. The Uncanniness of Schelling’s Uncanny





5. The Uncanny and the Work of Walter Benjamin





6. The Uncanny Cyborg





7. The Uncanny and the Fictional









8. The Uncanny Commonwealth of Christianity





9. The Living Polytheism of the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism/Taoist Tai Chi Society

Index

About the author

Rod Giblett is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. He is the author of many books in the environmental humanities, including People and Places of Nature and Culture (2011) and most recently Environmental Humanities and Theologies (2018), and is a pioneer in psychoanalytic ecology.

Summary

Sigmund Freud’s essay on the uncanny is celebrating a century. It is arguably his greatest and most fruitful contribution to the study of culture and the environment.

Product details

• Authors: Rod Giblett, Giblett Rod
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367730260
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73026-0
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; RELIGION / General, NATURE / Ecology, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Science / Environmental Science, Environmentalist thought and ideology