The seasons : philosophical, literary, and environmental perspectives / edited by Luke Fischer and David Macauley

Published: Albany : State University of New York, [2021]
Physical Description: x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Fischer, Luke and Macauley, David

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Contents

Introduction: Thinking through the seasons -- Environmental Time. The four seasons and the rhythms of place-based time -- The seasons embodied: the story of a plant -- Phenomenology and Poetics. A poetic phenomenology of the seasons -- Hölderlin, Heidegger, and seasonal time -- Toward a phen(omen)ology of the seasons: the emergence of the Indigenous Weather Knowledge Project -- Anthropology and the Arctic. Arctic summer -- Seasonal affective order: the passage of sense in circumpolar religion -- Everyday Aesthetics. The almanac projects: modeling the seasons through the material world -- The cycle of seasons: the temporal structure of fashion -- Decolonizing Literature. The nature and culture of the seasons: homage to Henry David Thoreau -- The decolonized pastoral: Kinsella, Thoreau, and the seasons.

Summary

"Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism"--

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ISBN

9781438484259 hardcover
1438484259 hardcover

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Endowment Note

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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