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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: The word "nature"
Hi Karla and all, I'm not sure this is relevant to your project Karla, but I just started reading Andrew Biro's Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond (2005), which so far seems to offer an extremely useful discussion of the debates over nature and social construction from a theoretical rather than an ecocritical perspective (he's a political scientist). The intro chapters, "Nature or 'Nature'?", "Ecocentrism and the Defense of Nature" and "Postmodernism: the Critique of 'Nature'" in particular might be useful for this, if not the later ones on Rousseau, Marx, Adorno and Marcuse. Cheers, Anne -- Dr. Anne Raine Department of English University of Ottawa 70 Laurier Ave. East Ottawa, ON K1N 6N 5 Office: Arts 305 / 613-592-5800 x1770 araine@uottawa.ca
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