The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton
Argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This book investigates the philosophical, political, and aesthetic implications of the fact that all life forms are interconnected. It describes a mesh of interconnected life forms - intimate, strange, and lacking fixed identity.
Timothy Morton has a unique take on ecology that challenges much of the alternative consciousness that floats around on the periphery of environmental circlesHe offers a profound take on human possibilities. To Morton, human society and Nature are not two distinct things but rather two different angles on the same thing. Tikkun 20110629 By suggesting imaginative ways to resolve other crises, could humanities scholars stave off the crisis engulfing their own subjects? Morton proposes a future in which the venerable ideas of "nature" and "environment" are so much detritus, useless for addressing a looming ecological catastrophe. His book exemplifies the "serious" humanities scholarship he makes a plea for. My head's still spinning. -- Noel Castree Times Higher Education 20110908 Morton's The Ecological Thought rejects the romantic concept of nature as a passive foil to human action. The natural world, as it turns out, is not something outside of us; or, put another way: there is no difference between humans and our environment...He asks us to engage in "radical openness" as a way of practicing "radical coexistence," a state of being that we live even when we do not think much about it...Morton's book allows us to see our stirrings of sympathy for nonhuman beings such as strawberries as the beginning of a recognition that we have all--people and plants alike--lost long ago our presumed roots in an imagined natural world. -- Natania Meeker and Antonia Szabari Los Angeles Review of Books 20120509
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English at Rice University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674049208 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674049209 |
| Title | The Ecological Thought |
| Author | Timothy Morton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2010-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
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