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  • Elemental Philosophy

    Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas

    by David Macauley ...
    Series series SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
    Explores the ancient and perennial notion of the four elements as environmental ideas.Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Wisdom of Trees

    Thinking Through Arboreality

    Edited by David Macauley, Laura Pustarfi ...
    Series series SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
    Pioneering essays that reveal the significance of new interdisciplinary understandings of trees and forests, especially in terms of their philosophical and ecological dimensions and their importance for addressing the climate emergency.This is the first book to apply philosophical thinking to trees. Through a series of sixteen diverse essays by leading scholars and writers, along with an in-depth ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Seasons

    Philosophical, Literary, and Environmental Perspectives

    Edited by Luke Fischer, David Macauley ...
    Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art, their significance for philosophy and environmental theory has remained largely unexplored. This pioneering book demonstrates the ways in which ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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    Spider!

    by David Metzenthen ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Macauley ...
    Series series Aussie Nibbles

    Unabridged

    18 min

    There is an awfully big spider in Min's bedroom. So is he hairy, scary and dangerous? Or is he really rather nice? Find out when you read this hilarious, and surprising tale of an arachnid with attitude! ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Dark Ecology

    For a Logic of Future Coexistence

    by Timothy Morton ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • When Languages Die

    The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

    by K David Harrison ...
    It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Ape And The Sushi Master

    Cultural Reflections Of A Primatologist

    by Frans De Waal ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Mama's Last Hug and Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, a provocative argument that apes have created their own distinctive culturesIn The Ape and the Sushi Master, eminent primatologist Frans de Waal corrects our arrogant assumption that humans are the only creatures to have made the leap from the natural to the cultural domain. The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Metamorphoses

    by Emanuele Coccia ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life.Emanuele Coccia argues that metamorphosis – the phenomenon that allows the same life to subsist in ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    by Graham Harvey ...
    Series series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Thinking with Animals

    New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism

    Edited by Lorraine Daston, Gregg Mitman ...
    Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as humans and humans as animals. As this innovative new collection demonstrates, humans use animals to ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Animals and the Human Imagination

    A Companion to Animal Studies

    by Wendy Doniger ...
    Human beings have long imagined their subjectivity, ethics, and ancestry with and through animals, yet not until the mid-twentieth century did contemporary thought reflect critically on animals' significance in human self-conception. Thinkers such as French philosopher Jacques Derrida, South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, and American theorist Donna Haraway have initiated rigorous inquiries into ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Everyday Aesthetics

    by Yuriko Saito ...
    Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the past few centuries also neglect everyday aesthetics because of their almost exclusive emphasis on art. In a ground-breaking new study, Yuriko ... Read more

    $37.79 USD