Imagining Earth - Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of Our Home Planet

While concepts of Earth have a rich tradition, more recent examples show a distinct quality: Though ideas of wholeness might still be related to mythical, religious, or utopian visions of the past, "Earth" itself has become available as a whole. This raises several questions: How are the notions of one Earth or our Planet imagined and distributed? What is the role of cultural imagination and practices of signification in the imagination of "the Earth"? Which theoretical models can be used or need to be developed to describe processes of imagining Planet Earth? This collection invites a wide range of perspectives from different fields of the Humanities to explore the means of imagining Earth.

Info autore

Nicolas Pethes (Prof. Dr.) lehrt Europäische Literatur und Mediengeschichte an der FernUniversität in Hagen und ist Leiter der Emmy-Noether-Forschungsgruppe »Kulturgeschichte des Menschenversuchs«, Bonn.

Relazione

Besprochen in:
H-Soz-u-Kult, 22.11.2017, David Kuchenbuch

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nicolas Pethes
• Con la collaborazione di: Solvej Nitzke (Editore), Solvejg Nitzke (Editore), Pethes (Editore), Pethes (Editore), Nicolas Pethes (Editore)
• Editore: Transcript
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.2017
• EAN: 9783837639568
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-3956-8
• Pagine: 174
• Dimensioni: 151 mm x 226 mm x 12 mm
• Peso: 288 g
• Illustrazioni: 4 SW-Abb., 14 Farbabb.
• Serie: Edition Kulturwissenschaft; Edition Kulturwissenschaft; Culture & Theory; Culture & Theory (COL)
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze umane, tematiche generali