Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Ecological Thought

3.8/5 ( ratings)

In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from the ecological entanglement, Morton contends, nor does "Nature" exist as an entity separate from the uglier or more synthetic elements of life. Realizing this interconnectedness is what Morton calls the ecological thought.

In three concise chapters, Morton investigates the profound philosophical, political, and aesthetic implications of the fact that all life forms are interconnected. As a work of environmental philosophy and theory, "The Ecological Thought" explores an emerging awareness of ecological reality in an age of global warming. Using Darwin and contemporary discoveries in life sciences as root texts, Morton describes a mesh of deeply interconnected life forms--intimate, strange, and lacking fixed identity.

A "prequel" to his "Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics" , "The Ecological Thought" is an engaged and accessible work that will challenge the thinking of readers in disciplines ranging from critical theory to Romanticism to cultural geography.

Language: English

Pages: 163

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Release: April 28, 2010

ISBN: 0674049209

ISBN 13: 9780674049208

The Ecological Thought

3.8/5 ( ratings)

In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from the ecological entanglement, Morton contends, nor does "Nature" exist as an entity separate from the uglier or more synthetic elements of life. Realizing this interconnectedness is what Morton calls the ecological thought.

In three concise chapters, Morton investigates the profound philosophical, political, and aesthetic implications of the fact that all life forms are interconnected. As a work of environmental philosophy and theory, "The Ecological Thought" explores an emerging awareness of ecological reality in an age of global warming. Using Darwin and contemporary discoveries in life sciences as root texts, Morton describes a mesh of deeply interconnected life forms--intimate, strange, and lacking fixed identity.

A "prequel" to his "Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics" , "The Ecological Thought" is an engaged and accessible work that will challenge the thinking of readers in disciplines ranging from critical theory to Romanticism to cultural geography.

Language: English

Pages: 163

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Release: April 28, 2010

ISBN: 0674049209

ISBN 13: 9780674049208

More books from Timothy Morton

Being Ecological

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

3.7/5 ( ratings)

All Art is Ecological

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Iperoggetti

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Nonhuman Turn

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Spacecraft

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures)

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Hyposubjects: On becoming human

Collapse Vol. VI: Geo/Philosophy

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Cambridge Companion to Shelley

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Meaningful Flesh: Reflections on Religion and Nature for a Queer Planet

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Cosa sosteniamo?

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Tamna ekologija: za logiku budućeg suživota

2.3/5 ( ratings)

Ökologisch sein

Olafur Eliasson. Symbiotic Seeing: Catalog Kunsthaus Zürich

Glossator Volume 7

Unsettling Science and Religion: Contributions and Questions from Queer Studies

Rate this book!

Write a review?