Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought / Edition 1

by Verena Andermatt Conley

Overview

Ecopolitics is a study of environmental awareness - or non-awareness - in contemporary French theory. Arguing that it is now impossible not to think in an ecological way, Verena Andermatt Conley traces the roots of today's concern for the environment back to the intellectual climate of the late 50s and 60s.
The author considers key texts by influential figures such as Michael Serres, Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Michel de Certeau, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray. Ecopolitics rehabilitates some ecological components of French intellectual thought of the past thirty years, and reassesses French poststructural thinkers who explicitly deal with ecology in their work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415102841
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/28/1996
Series:	Opening Out: Feminism for Today
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction, Chapter 1. First Type of Disparagement: The Return of the Full Subject and the Nature/Culture Division, Chapter 2. Second type of Disparagement: Denaturing of Ecology as Simulacrum, Chapter 3. Emergence of Ecology: Beyond Dialectics and Existential Humanism, Chapter 4. Chaos and Ethics: From Science to Praxis, Chapter 5. Motor Ecology, Chapter 6. New Ecological Territories, Chapter 7. Everyday Life: Ecological Practices, Chapter 8. Back to Writing: The Fate of post-68 Feminine Writing, Conclusion, Bibliography

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'A worthy read' - Political Geography

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