Second Nature : : Rethinking the Natural through Politics /

Second Nature : : Rethinking the Natural through Politics / / ed. by Crina Archer, Laura Ephraim, Lida Maxwell.

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The essays collected here, by both eminent and emerging scholars, engage interlocutors from Machiavelli to Arendt. Individually, they contribute compelling readings of important political thinkers and add fresh insights to debates in areas such as environmentalism and human rights. Together, the vol...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Archer, Crina,
Bennett, Jane,
Biser, Ashley,
Buck, Christopher,
Ephraim, Laura,
Gündoǧdu, Ayten,
Honig, Bonnie,
Laqueur, Thomas,
Maxwell, Lida,
Winter, Yves,
HerausgeberIn:
Archer, Crina,
Ephraim, Laura,
Maxwell, Lida,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Politics on the Terrain of Second Nature
  • 1. Necessity and Fortune: Machiavelli’s Politics of Nature
  • 2. Burning the Dead and the Ways of Nature
  • 3. Corpses for Kilowatts? Mourning, Justice, Burial, and the Ends of Humanism
  • 4. “The Unnatural Growth of the Natural”: Reconsidering Nature and Artifice in the Context of Biotechnology
  • 5. Potentialities of Second Nature: Agamben on Human Rights
  • 6. The Utopian Content of Reification: Adorno’s Critical Social Theory of Nature
  • 7. From Nature to Matter
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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