Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen File Type: pdf Emphasizing sustainability, balance, and the natural, green dominates our thinking about ecology like no other color. What about the catastrophic, the disruptive, the inaccessible, and the excessive? What of the oceans turbulence, the fecundity of excrement, the solitude of an iceberg, multihued contaminations? Prismatic Ecology moves beyond the accustomed green readings of ecotheory and maps a colorful world of ecological possibility. In a series of linked essays that span place, time, and discipline, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen brings together writers who illustrate the vibrant worlds formed by colors. Organized by the structure of a prism, each chapter explores the coming into existence of nonanthropocentric ecologies. Red engages sites of animal violence, apocalyptic emergence, and activism Maroon follows the aurora borealis to the far North and beholds in its shimmering alternative modes of world composition Chartreuse is a meditation on postsustainability and possibility within sublime excess Grey is the color of the undead Ultraviolet is a potentially lethal force that opens vistas beyond humanly known nature. Featuring established and emerging scholars from varying disciplines, this volume presents a collaborative imagining of what a more-than-green ecology offers. While highlighting critical approaches not yet common within ecotheory, the contributions remain diverse and cover a range of topics including materiality, the inhuman, and the agency of objects. By way of color, Cohen guides readers through a reflection of an essentially complex and disordered universe and demonstrates the spectrum as an unfinishable totality, always in excess of what a human perceives. Contributors Stacy Alaimo, U of Texas at Arlington Levi R. Bryant, Collin College Lowell Duckert, West Virginia U Graham Harman, American U in Cairo Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe U of Frankfurt Serenella Iovino, U of Turin, Italy Eileen A. Joy Robert McRuer, George Washington U Tobias Menely, Miami U Steve Mentz, St. Johns U, New York City Timothy Morton, Rice U Vin Nardizzi, U of British Columbia Serpil Oppermann, Hacettepe U, Ankara Margaret Ronda, Rutgers U Will Stockton, Clemson U Allan Stoekl, Penn State U Ben Woodard Julian Yates, U of Delaware. **About the Author Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at George Washington University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Medieval Identity Machines Of Giants Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages and Monster Theory Reading Culture, all from Minnesota.

Author: Lisa Herzog File Type: pdf It is not clear what the intellectual history of the last 200 years would have looked like without the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel, but it is clear that it would have looked different. His vast intellectual system was taken up by thinkers from left to right, and from very different philosophical schools. This volume brings together accessible, concise essays from leading scholars that present important currents of Hegelian thought in different European countries, including pre-revolutionary Russia, from the 19th to the 21st century. It unites a range of very different forms of (Non-Marxian) Hegelianisms and Anti-Hegelianisms, showing similarities as well as differences. Embedding them in their cultural and intellectual contexts, it demonstrates the various encounters between philosophy, politics and personal lives that Hegels philosophy inspired.

Author: Edward Lear File Type: epub From the benighted Old Man with a Beard to the erudite Perpendicular Purple Polly, Edward Lears world is inhabited by a bewildering variety of oddities. One of the worlds most loved writers, Lears verse has delighted whole generations of readers. Here, after 140 years, is the original edition of A Book of Nonsense, from the original publishers. Complete with Lears own remarkable illustrations, this treasure trove of nonsense is guaranteed to hold readers spellbound for generations more! **Review I really dont know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred authors. - John Ruskin About the Author Edward Lear (1812-1888). The youngest of twenty-one children, who made his reputation as an artist, humorist and traveller.

Author: Paul A. Cantor File Type: pdf For more than forty years, Paul Cantors Shakespeares Rome has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the first to argue that they are grounded in a profound understanding of the Roman regime and its changes over time. Taking Shakespeare seriously as a political thinker, Cantor suggests that his Roman plays can be profitably studied in the context of the classical republican tradition in political philosophy. In Shakespeares Rome, Cantor examines the political settings of Shakespeares Roman plays, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra, with references as well to Julius Caesar. Cantor shows that Shakespeare presents a convincing portrait of Rome in different eras of its history, contrasting the austere republic of Coriolanus, with its narrow horizons and martial virtues, and the cosmopolitan empire of Antony and Cleopatra, with its immortal longings and sophistication bordering on decadence. **