Dale Jamieson

Love in the Anthropocene

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An audacious collaboration between an award-winning novelist and a leading environmental philosopher, Love in the Anthropocene taps into one of the hottest topics of the day, literally and figuratively—our corrupted environment—to deliver five related stories (Flyfishing,” Carbon,” Holiday,” Shanghai,” and Zoo”) that investigate a future bereft of natural environments, introduced with a discussion on the Anthropocene—the Age of Humanity—and concluding with an essay on love. The love” these writer/philosophers investigate and celebrate is as much a constant as is human despoliation of the planet; it is what defines us, and it is what may save… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Nadzam, Bonnie

ISBN: 978-1-939293-90-9
EAN: 9781939293909
Produktnummer: 38098560
Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 220 S.

Über den Autor

Dale Jamieson has held visiting appointments at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is currently Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Law, Affiliated Professor of Medical Ethics, and Director of the Animal Studies Initiative at New York University. He has published widely in environmental philosophy, animal studies, and ethics: most recently Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed—and What It Means For Our Future (Oxford, 2014). This is his first work of fiction. Bonnie Nadzam has published fiction and essays in many journals and magazines, including Granta, Harper's Magazine, Orion Magazine, The Iowa Review, Epoch, The Kenyon Review, and many others. Her first novel, Lamb, was recipient of the Center for Fiction's first novel award in 2011, and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. It has been translated into several languages. Her second novel, Lions, will be out from Grove Press in 2016.