{"product_id":"nature-and-its-unnatural-relations-9781666943764","title":"Nature and Its Unnatural Relations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsisting of contributions from a host of international scholars (in fields as diverse as literature, architecture, philosophy, and education), Alain Beauclair and Josh Toth's \u003ci\u003eNature and Its Unnatural Relations: Points of Access\u003c\/i\u003e intercedes in ongoing debates about accessing, defining, and respecting a world humans continue to misuse and misunderstandand that, as a result, is becoming increasingly inhospitable. The chapters shuttle between a variety of aesthetic and philosophical concernsfrom theology and Biblical interpretation to colonialism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, worlding, posthumanism, and speculative realism. These varied approaches are united by a single aporetic thread: efforts to surmount the problem of human access invariably risk repeating (ever more blindly) the violence and immorality of anthropocentrism. We seem trapped in the \u003ci\u003ecul-de-sac\u003c\/i\u003e of the Anthropocene. To discover potential new exits, the contributors consider whether it is possible or advisable to abandon so-called correlationismof art, of literature, of technology. If it is, then how? If not, how might we more ethically reembrace our innately corruptive relations with a world of non-human others? How might we free nature (finally) from the demands of human action and human thought without mendaciously reinscribing humanity's distance from it or denying a proximity that is only traversable by artificial means? \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042039857495,"sku":"9781666943764","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666943764.jpg?v=1750952749","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nature-and-its-unnatural-relations-9781666943764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}