{"product_id":"second-nature-9780823251421","title":"Second Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume examines the nature\/politics relationship anew in the wake of recent critiques of the category of “nature.” Its essays draw on contemporary and canonical thinkers to reflect on “second nature” as a site or paradigm of political contest and intervene into debates about environmentalism, human rights, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Archer, Ephraim, and Maxwell have compiled a fascinating array of analyses of what Nietzsche termed 'second nature': the agonistic, original attempt to create and recreate the human self. The collection brings together familiar and new voices, each investigating the overlaps and mutual constitutions between nature and culture, human and nonhuman, life and matter. The book leaves us aware of the struggles with the world in which beings of all sorts engage, over the materiality of life, over the situatedness of being, and over the inevitability of death.\" -- -Kennan Ferguson University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments       Introduction: Politics on the Terrain of Second Nature      Crina Archer, Laura Ephraim, and Lida Maxwell       1. Necessity and Fortune: Machiavelli's Politics of Nature      Yves Winter       2. Burning the Dead and the Ways of Nature      Thomas Laqueur       3. Corpses for Kilowatts? Mourning, Justice, Burial, and the Ends of Humanism      Bonnie Honig       4. \"The Unnatural Growth of the Natural\": Reconsidering Nature and Artifi ce in the      Context of Biotechnology      Ashley Biser       5. Potentialities of Second Nature: Agamben on Human Rights      Ayten Gundogdu       6. The Utopian Content of Reifi cation: Adorno's Critical Social Theory of Nature      Christopher Buck       7. From Nature to Matter      Jane Bennett       Notes       List of Contributors       Index","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528014963031,"sku":"9780823251421","price":31.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823251421.jpg?v=1731870075","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/second-nature-9780823251421","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}