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Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), with its relentless interrogation of the anthropocentric metaphysics of presence, has already proven highly influential in post humanism and animal studies, the present volume, drawing on published and unpublished work by Derrida and others, builds on these insights to address the most pressing environmental issues of our time. The volume brings together fifteen prominent scholars, from a wide variety of related fields, including eco-phenomenology, eco-hermeneutics, new materialism, posthum Nismo, animal studies, vegetal philosophy, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, eco-criticism, earth art and aesthetics, and analytic environmental ethics. Overall, eco-deconstruction offers an account of differential relationality explored in a non-totalizable ecological context that addresses our times in both an ontological and a normative register. The book is divided into four sections. “Diagnosing the Present” suggests that our times are marked by a facile, flattened-out understanding of time and thus in need of deconstructive dispositions. “Ecologies” mobilizes the spectral ontology of deconstruction to argue for an originary environmentality, the constitutive ecological embeddedness of mortal life. “Nuclear and Other Biodegradabilities,” examines remains, including such by-products and disintegrations of human culture as nuclear waste, environmental destruction, and species extinctions. “Environmental Ethics” seeks to uncover a demand for justice, including human responsibility for suffering beings, that emerges precisely as a response to original differentiation and the mortality and unmasterable alterity it installs in living beings. As such, the book will resonate with readers not only of philosophy, but across the humanities and the social and natural sciences.

Deconstruction. --- Environmental ethics. --- Ecology. --- Derrida, Jacques. --- Anthropocene. --- Derrida. --- Eco-Criticism. --- Eco-Phenomenology. --- Environmental Ethics. --- Environmental Philosophy. --- New Materialism. --- Posthumanism.

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Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered in Critical Collaborations constitute a call for collaboration and kinship across disciplinary, political, institutional, and community borders. They are tied together through a simultaneous call for resistance--to Eurocentrism, corporatization, rationalism, and the fantasy of total systems of knowledge--and a call for critical collaborations. These collaborations seek to forge connections without perceived identity--linking concepts and communities without violating the differences that constitute them, seeking epistemic kinships while maintaining a willingness to not-know. In this way, they form a critical conversation between seemingly distinct areas and demonstrate fundamental allegiances between diasporic and indigenous scholarship, transnational and local knowledges, legal and eco-critical methodologies. Links are forged between Indigenous knowledge and ecological and social justice, creative critical reading, and ambidextrous epistemologies, unmaking the nation through translocalism and unsettling histories of colonial complicity through a poetics of relation. Together, these essays reveal how the critical methodologies brought to bear on literary studies can both challenge and exceed disciplinary structures, presenting new forms of strategic transdisciplinarity that expand the possibilities of Canadian literary studies while also emphasizing humility, complicity, and the limits of knowledge.

Canadian literature --- Criticism --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Social aspects --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Canadian literature. --- Diaspora. --- Eco-criticism. --- Indigeneity. --- Interdisciplinarity.

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Contemplative or “noetic” knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where “theoria physike,” or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purification of the heart, is seen to provide deeper insights into nature than the discursive rationality modernity has used to dominate and conquer it.Working from texts in Eastern Orthodox philosophy and theology not widely known in the West, as well as a variety of sources including mystics such as the Sufi Ibn ‘Arabi, poets such as Basho, Traherne, Blake, Hölderlin, and Hopkins, and nature writers such as Muir, Thoreau, and Dillard, The Noetics of Nature challenges both the primacy of the natural sciences in environmental thought and the conventional view, first advanced by Lynn White, Jr., that Christian theology is somehow responsible for the environmental crisis.Instead, Foltz concludes that the ancient Christian view of creation as iconic—its “holy beauty” manifesting the divine energies and constituting a primal mode of divine revelation—offers the best prospect for the radical reversal that is needed in our relation to the natural environment.

Aesthetics. --- Environmental ethics. --- Human ecology --- Nature --- Philosophy of nature. --- Religious aspects. --- Byzantine and Russian Philosophy. --- Eastern Orthodox Philosophy and Theology. --- Eco-criticism. --- Eco-theology. --- Ecology. --- Environmental Aesthetics. --- Environmental Philosophy. --- Environmental Studies. --- Intellectual History. --- byzantine philosophy. --- creation. --- environment. --- nature. --- philosophy of nature. --- russian philosophy.

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Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called 'green' terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety about what we, as humans, are doing to it. So called green or eco-criticism acknowledges this concern.Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-criticism. After considering general issues pertaining to green criticism, Greenery moves on to a series of individual chapters arranged by theme (earth, trees, wilds, sea, gardens and fields) which provide individual close readings of selections from such familiar texts as Malory's Morte D'Arthur, Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Langland's Piers Plowman. These discussions are contextualized by considering them alongside hitherto marginalized texts such as lyrics, Patience and the romance Sir Orfeo. The result is a study which reinvigorates our customary reading of late Middle English literary texts while also allows us to reflect upon the vibrant new school of eco-criticism itself.

Nature in literature. --- English literature --- Ecocriticism. --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Nature in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval. --- Literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Middle English. --- Middle English literature --- Thematology --- Old English literature --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1200-1499 --- Sir Orfeo. --- earth. --- eco-criticism. --- fields. --- gardens. --- natural world. --- sea. --- trees. --- wilds.

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Beat Studies represent a vibrant field of intellectual inquiry, and this collection examines Beat culture as deeply infused with ecological themes. Allen Ginsberg invented the term "Flower Power" and Beat texts uncover the sources of our current existential climate predicament. This is the first edited collection to place the Beat Generation in conversation with the environment. A diverse number of contributors from Asia, Europe, and North America addresses essential environmental subjects and the deep ecological vision of the Beats.

Research & information: general --- Environmental economics --- Allen Ginsberg --- Beat Generation --- poetry --- poetics --- memory --- Guy Debord --- psychogeography --- landscape --- ecocriticism --- pilgrimage --- Geoffrey Chaucer --- The Canterbury Tales --- Jack Kerouac --- On the Road --- ecopoetics --- slow travel --- vernacular --- William S. Burroughs --- Naked Lunch --- dark ecology --- consumption --- control --- Timothy Morton --- speciesism --- consumerism --- mass extinction --- climate change --- environmental humanities --- posthuman --- non-philosophy --- Beat women --- eco-criticism --- green reading --- Diane di Prima --- Anne Waldman --- Kerouac --- frontier --- ecotopia --- ecopoetry --- New York School --- New American Poetry --- reparative reading --- environment --- Black Mountain --- Queer --- Ghost of Chance --- Yage Letters --- Madagascar --- experimental film --- cyberpunk --- nature --- sound --- animals --- beat generation --- comparative literature --- white shamanism --- Beat poetry --- anthropocentric materialism --- Buddhist poetics --- biotic community