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…mehr
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.
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 is the author of German Culture and the Modern Environmental Imagination (2015) and editor of From Kafka to Sebald: Modernism and Narrative Form (Bloomsbury, 2012). 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).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Rethinking Literary History, Critical Reading Practices, and Cultural Studies in the Anthropocene Sabine Wilke, University of Washington, USA I. Entanglements 1. A World Without Us: Aesthetic, Literary and Scientific Imaginations of Nature beyond Humankind Wolfgang Struck, University of Erfurt, Germany 2. Hybrid Environments in the Anthropocene: Recent Fiction Carolina Schaumann, Emory University, USA, and Heather Sullivan, Trinity University, USA 3. Looking Behind Walls. Literary and Filmic Imaginations of Nature and Humanity in Haushofer's Die Wand Sabine Frost, University of Washington, USA II. Excess/Sustainability 4. Care and Forethought: The Idea of Sustainability in Hegel's Practical Philosophy Klaus Vieweg, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany 5. Save the Forest, Burn Books: On the Science and Poetics of Sustainability in Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Markus Wilczek, Tufts University, USA 6. Mocking the Anthropocene: Caricatures of Man-made Landscapes in German Satirical Magazines from the Fin de Siècle Evi Zemanek, University of Freiburg, Germany 7. The Darkness of the Anthropocene: Wolfgang Hilbig's Alte Abdeckerei. Sabine Nöllgen, University of Puget Sound, USA III. Periodization and Scale 8. Immanuel Kant, the Anthropocene, and the Idea of Environmental Cosmopolitanism Amos Nascimento, University of Washington Tacoma, USA 9. Adalbert Stifter and the Gentle Anthropocene Sean Ireton, University of Missouri, USA 10. Engineering the Anthropocene: Technology, Ambition, and Enlightenment in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter Katie Ritson IV. Diffusion, the Lithic, and a Planetary Praxis 11. Petrifiction: Reimagining the Mine in German Romanticism Jason Groves, San Francisco State University, USA 12. The Anthroposcene of Literature: Diffuse Dwelling in Graham Swift and W.G. Sebald Bernhard Malkmus, Ohio State University, USA 13. Planetary Praxis in the Anthropocene: An Ethics and Poetics for a New Geological Age Sabine Wilke, University of Washington, USA Epilogue: The Anthropocene in German Perspective Axel Goodbody, University of Bath, UK Bibliography Index
Introduction: Rethinking Literary History, Critical Reading Practices, and Cultural Studies in the Anthropocene Sabine Wilke, University of Washington, USA I. Entanglements 1. A World Without Us: Aesthetic, Literary and Scientific Imaginations of Nature beyond Humankind Wolfgang Struck, University of Erfurt, Germany 2. Hybrid Environments in the Anthropocene: Recent Fiction Carolina Schaumann, Emory University, USA, and Heather Sullivan, Trinity University, USA 3. Looking Behind Walls. Literary and Filmic Imaginations of Nature and Humanity in Haushofer's Die Wand Sabine Frost, University of Washington, USA II. Excess/Sustainability 4. Care and Forethought: The Idea of Sustainability in Hegel's Practical Philosophy Klaus Vieweg, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany 5. Save the Forest, Burn Books: On the Science and Poetics of Sustainability in Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Markus Wilczek, Tufts University, USA 6. Mocking the Anthropocene: Caricatures of Man-made Landscapes in German Satirical Magazines from the Fin de Siècle Evi Zemanek, University of Freiburg, Germany 7. The Darkness of the Anthropocene: Wolfgang Hilbig's Alte Abdeckerei. Sabine Nöllgen, University of Puget Sound, USA III. Periodization and Scale 8. Immanuel Kant, the Anthropocene, and the Idea of Environmental Cosmopolitanism Amos Nascimento, University of Washington Tacoma, USA 9. Adalbert Stifter and the Gentle Anthropocene Sean Ireton, University of Missouri, USA 10. Engineering the Anthropocene: Technology, Ambition, and Enlightenment in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter Katie Ritson IV. Diffusion, the Lithic, and a Planetary Praxis 11. Petrifiction: Reimagining the Mine in German Romanticism Jason Groves, San Francisco State University, USA 12. The Anthroposcene of Literature: Diffuse Dwelling in Graham Swift and W.G. Sebald Bernhard Malkmus, Ohio State University, USA 13. Planetary Praxis in the Anthropocene: An Ethics and Poetics for a New Geological Age Sabine Wilke, University of Washington, USA Epilogue: The Anthropocene in German Perspective Axel Goodbody, University of Bath, UK Bibliography Index
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