TY - BOOK ID - 9048660 TI - Ecology without nature : rethinking environmental aesthetics. PY - 2009 SN - 9780674034853 9780674024342 0674034856 0674024346 PB - Cambridge Harvard university press DB - UniCat KW - Environmental literature KW - English literature KW - American literature KW - Ecology in literature. KW - Environmentalism KW - Nature in literature. KW - Philosophy in literature. KW - Romanticism. KW - Pseudo-romanticism KW - Romanticism in literature KW - Aesthetics KW - Fiction KW - Literary movements KW - Nature in poetry KW - Ecological literature KW - Ecology KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc. KW - History and criticism. KW - Philosophy. KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - conservation [discipline] KW - ecology KW - Bien-être social KW - social welfare KW - Ecology in literature KW - Nature in literature KW - Philosophy in literature KW - Romanticism KW - Philosophy KW - History and criticism&delete& KW - Theory, etc KW - environment KW - Environmental policies KW - Aesthetic value KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Littérature américaine KW - Écologie KW - Nature KW - Écologisme KW - Thèmes, motifs KW - Dans la littérature KW - Philosophie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9048660 AB - In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the “nature” they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a seeming paradox: to have a properly ecological view, we must relinquish the idea of nature once and for all.Ecology without Nature investigates our ecological assumptions in a way that is provocative and deeply engaging. Ranging widely in eighteenth-century through contemporary philosophy, culture, and history, he explores the value of art in imagining environmental projects for the future. Morton develops a fresh vocabulary for reading “environmentality” in artistic form as well as content, and traces the contexts of ecological constructs through the history of capitalism. From John Clare to John Cage, from Kierkegaard to Kristeva, from The Lord of the Rings to electronic life forms, Ecology without Nature widens our view of ecological criticism, and deepens our understanding of ecology itself. Instead of trying to use an idea of nature to heal what society has damaged, Morton sets out a radical new form of ecological criticism: “dark ecology.” ER -