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Radical animism, reading for the end of the world, Jemma Deer

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Radical animism, reading for the end of the world, Jemma Deer

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-224) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Radical animism

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jemma Deer

Series statement

Environmental cultures series

Sub title

reading for the end of the world

Summary

The reckoning of climate change calls for us to fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality, superiority and power. Drawing on a wide range of modern writers and thinkers - from Freud and Darwin to Latour and Derrida, from Shakespeare and Carroll to Woolf and Kafka - Radical Animism develops a new theory of life for a planet in crisis. In this original and timely work, Jemma Deer reframes our thinking of the Anthropocene with ideas from anthropology, astronomy, deconstruction, evolutionary biology, psychoanalysis, quantum physics and veganism. Through readings that are both inventive and compelling, this book shows how 'literary animism' - the active and transformative life of literature - can open our thinking to the immense power of the non-human world

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