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Second Nature: Rethinking the Natural through Politics

Second Nature: Rethinking the Natural through Politics

Second Nature: Rethinking the Natural through Politics

Second Nature: Rethinking the Natural through Politics

Overview

These essays collected here, by both eminent and emerging scholars, engage interlocutors from Machiavelli to Arendt. Individually, they contribute compelling readings of important political thinkers and add fresh insights to debates in areas such as environmentalism and human rights. Together, the volume issues a call to think anew about nature, not only as a traditional concept that should be deconstructed or affirmed, but also as a site of human political activity and struggle worthy of sustained theoretical attention.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780823251421
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 08/01/2013
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Crina Archer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University.

Laura Ephraim is Associate Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College.

Lida Maxwell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Politics on the Terrain of Second Nature
Crina Archer, Laura Ephraim, and Lida Maxwell

1. Necessity and Fortune: Machiavelli's Politics of Nature
Yves Winter
2. Burning the Dead and the Ways of Nature
Thomas Laqueur
3. Corpses for Kilowatts? Mourning, Justice, Burial, and the Ends of Humanism
Bonnie Honig
4. "The Unnatural Growth of the Natural": Reconsidering Nature and Artifi ce in the
Context of Biotechnology
Ashley Biser
5. Potentialities of Second Nature: Agamben on Human Rights
Ayten Gündogdu
6. The Utopian Content of Reifi cation: Adorno's Critical Social Theory of Nature
Christopher Buck
7. From Nature to Matter
Jane Bennett
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
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