Readings in the Anthropocene: The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond (New Directions in German Studies Book 18)

Readings In The Anthropocene Brings Together A Number Of Different Scholars From German Studies Disciplines 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. A World Without Us / Wolfgang Struck -- Hybrid Environments In The Anthropocene / Caroline Schaumann And Heather I. Sullivan -- Looking Behind Walls / Sabine Frost -- Care And Forethought / Klaus Vieweg -- Save The Forest, Burn Books / Markus Wilczek -- Mocking The Anthropocene / Evi Zemaneck -- The Darkness Of The Anthropocene / Sabine Nöllgen -- Immanuel Kant, The Anthropocene, And The Idea Of Environmental Cosmopolitanism / Amos Nascimento -- Adalbert Stifter And The Gentle Anthropocene / Sean Ireton -- Engineering The Anthropocene / Katie Ritson -- Petrification / Jason Groves -- The Anthropocene Of Literature / Bernhard Malkmus -- Planetary Praxis In The Anthropocene / Sabine Wilke -- Epilogue : The Anthropocene2 In German Perspective / Axel Goodbody. Edited By Sabine Wilke And Japhet Johnstone. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. FC New Directions in German Studies Volumes in the series Title Copyright Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction: Rethinking Literary History, Critical Reading Practices, and Cultural Studies in the Anthropocene Sabine Wilke Part I Entanglements 1 A World Without Us: Aesthetic, Literary, and Scientific Imaginations of Nature Beyond Humankind Wolfgang Struck 2 Hybrid Environments in the Anthropocene: Recent Fiction Caroline Schaumann and Heather I. Sullivan 3 Looking Behind Walls: Literary and Filmic Imaginations of Nature, Humanity, and the Anthropocene in Die Wand Sabine Frost Part II Excess/Sustainability 4 Care and Forethought: The Idea of Sustainability in Hegel’s Practical Philosophy Klaus Vieweg 5 Save the Forest, Burn Books: On the Science and Poetics of Sustainability in Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Markus Wilczek 6 Mocking the Anthropocene: Caricatures of Man-Made Landscapes in German Satirical Magazines from the Fin de Siècle Evi Zemanek 7 The Darkness of the Anthropocene: Wolfgang Hilbig’s Alte Abdeckerei Sabine Nöllgen Part III Periodization and Scale 8 Immanuel Kant, the Anthropocene, and the Idea of Environmental Cosmopolitanism Amos Nascimento 9 Adalbert Stifter and the Gentle Anthropocene Sean Ireton 10 Engineering the Anthropocene: Technology, Ambition, and Enlightenment in Theodor Storm’s Der Schimmelreiter Katie Ritson Part IV Diffusion, the Lithic, and a Planetary Praxis 11 Petrifiction: Reimagining the Mine in German Romanticism Jason Groves 12 The Anthroposcene of Literature: Diffuse Dwelling in Graham Swift and W. G. Sebald Bernhard Malkmus 13 Planetary Praxis in the Anthropocene: An Ethics and Poetics for a New Geological Age Sabine Wilke Epilogue: The Anthropocene in German Perspective Axel Goodbody Index "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.