Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Tønnessen, Morten; Rattasepp, Silver; Oma, Kristin Armstrong

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The term "Anthropocene", the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic (human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our impact on the living conditions of animals, others question conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals, and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world, as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of animals as they used to be before mankind¿s rise to global ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216217046
• Artikelnr.: 74830917

Autorenporträt

Edited by Morten Tønnessen; Kristin Armstrong Oma and Silver Rattasepp - Contributions by Almo Farina; Carlo Brentari; Katharine Dow; Martin Drenthen; Annabelle Dufourcq; Peter Gaitsch; Gisela Kaplan; Eva Meijer; Susan M. Rustick; Bronislaw Szerszynski; M

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Once upon a Time in the Anthropocene Morten
Tønnessen & Kristin Armstrong Oma Part I: Beyond Human Eyes Chapter 1: Held
Hostage by the Anthropocene Susan M. Rustick Chapter 2: Dangerous
Intersubjectivities from Dionysos to Kanzi Louise Westling Chapter 3:
Animals in a Noisy World Almo Farina Part II: Phenomenology in the
Anthropocene Chapter 4: A Phenomenological Approach to the Imaginary of
Animals Annabelle Dufourcq Chapter 5: Speaking with Animals: Philosophical
Interspecies Investigations Eva Meijer Chapter 6: Desire and/or Need for
Life? Towards a Phenomenological Dialectic of the Organism Sebastjan Vörös
& Peter Gaitsch Part III: Beast No More Chapter 7: Understanding the
Meaning of Wolf Resurgence, Ecosemiotics, and Landscape Hermeneutics Martin
Drenthen Chapter 8: Behaving like an Animal? Some Implications of the
Philosophical Debate on the Animality in Man Carlo Brentari Chapter 9:
Seeing with Dolphins: Reflections on the Salience of Cetaceans Katharine
Dow Part IV: New Beginnings Chapter 10: Out of the Metazoic? Animals as a
Transitional Form in Planetary Evolution Bronislaw Szerszynski Chapter 11:
Dangerous Animals and Our Search for Meaningful Relationships with Nature
in the Anthropocene Mateusz Tokarski Chapter 12: Don Quixote's Windmills
Gisela Kaplan About the Contributors Index