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Book SynopsisFrom Ego to Eco – Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism investigates philosophical, political and aesthetic formations of ecocentrism. Representing a variety of disciplines and testing a broad scope of critical approaches, the contributors of this volume argue that anthropocentrism is not - as often claimed - a predominant world view but, rather, a widely contested concept. Within various historical and national contexts, the individual contributors of this book discuss the significance and relevance of ecocentrism and offer new avenues to emerging discourses in the humanities. Contributors are: Darrell Arnold, Roman Bartosch, Aengus Daly, Gearoid Denvir, Elisabeth Jütten, Karla McManus, Sabine Lenore Müller, Maureen O’ Connor, Lillis Ó Laoire, Helen Phelan, Tina-Karen Pusse, and Christian Schmitt-Kilb.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Introduction Sabine Lenore Müller and Tina-Karen Pusse Part 1: Ecocentric Ways of Being: Human-Nature Continuities in Philosophy and Poetry 1 The Language of Nature: Non-differentiation and Concept Formation in Early Modern Empiricisms Aengus Daly 2 Environmental Modernism: Ecocentric Conceptions of the Self and the Emotions in the Works of R.M. Rilke and W.B. Yeats Sabine Lenore Müller 3 Hortus Deliciarum/Garden of Delights: A Somatic Interpretation Helen Phelan 4 From Dead Letters to Living Writing: The Aesthetic of Life in Novalis Elisabeth Jütten Part 2: Ecocentric Dwelling: The Global and the Local 5 A Voice from the Land: The Ecopoetics of a Gaeltacht Oral Poet Gearóid Denvir 6 Murder in a Meadow: Environmental and Cultural Extinction in Cathal Ó Searcaigh’s “Scrúdú Coinsiasa Roimh Dhul Chun Suain” Lillis Ó Laoire 7 “Poetry’s a Line of Defence”: Ecopoetry and Politics in the 21st Century Christian Schmitt-Kilb 8 Greening Democracy: A Defence of Critical Political Theory Darrell Arnold Part 3: Ecocentric Vision: Zoomorphism and Animal Perspectives 9 Dark Ecology and Black Comedy in Patrick McGinley’s Foggage Maureen O’Connor 10 Above, Below and Behind the Camera: The Perspective of Animals Karla McManus Part 4: Ecocentrism at the Limits: Animal Encounters 11 Against Exuberant Ecocentrism: Kafka, Coetzee and Transformative Mimesis Roman Bartosch Index
