Nature and Its Unnatural Relations - Points of Access

Consisting of contributions from international scholars in diverse fields, Beauclair and Toth's collection asks how humanity might free "nature" from the demands of human action and human thought without mendaciously reinscribing humanity's distance from it or denying a proximity that is only traversable by artificial means.

List of contents

Introduction: What we Know (to be Unrelatable)
by Alain Beauclair and Josh Toth
Prologue: How to Advocate-Radically, Kindly [A Transcript, A Conversation]
by Tracey Lindberg
Part I: Outside Structures
Chapter 1: Encountering the Mountain: A Sketch for a Hermeneutics of Nature
by Ruairidh J. Brown
Chapter 2: Kawabata's Sealed Play: Restoration and Reenchantment
by Eric Bronson
Chapter 3: A Principled Account of Artistic Sublimity in Kant's Critique of Judgment
by Joshua D.F. Hooke
Chapter 4: Architecture and the Ends of Man: Derrida, Latour, Eisenman
by Henrik Oxvig and Dag Petersson
Part II: Before Nature
Chapter 5: Nature and Dominion in Genesis
by Robert Burch
Chapter 6: Making the Hands Impure: On the Role of Orality in Becoming Responsible for the More-Than-Human World
by Kaleb Cohen
Chapter 7: The Narrator's "Dialectic of Enlightenment" in Howard O'Hagan's Tay John
by Sergiy Yakovenko
Chapter 8: Romanticism and the Anthropocene: Mirrors and Inversions in Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, and Melville
by Samantha C. Harvey
Part III: Reading Otherwise
Chapter 9: Beyond Negative Ecology: Earth Art in a Time of Climate Crisis
by John Culbert
Chapter 10: Re-calibrating Responses: De-conditioning Our Relationship to the Natural World Through Literature
by Jennifer Carmichael
Chapter 11: I Don't Believe in the Sun: Symbolic Action and Mythic Explanation in Klara and the Sun
by Ammon Allred
Chapter 12: Badiou's Scientific Event and Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
by Adriel M. Trott
Epilogue: Moral Grandstanding
by Claire Colebrook

About the author

Alain Beauclair is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at MacEwan University.
Josh Toth is professor of English at MacEwan University.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Beauclair
• Assisted by: Alain Beauclair (Editor), Josh Toth (Editor), Toth Josh (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2024
• EAN: 9781666943764
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-376-4
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; NATURE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, natural history, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural anthropology, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism, PHILOSOPHY / Nature