Brilliant Imperfection Description Brilliant Imperfection by Eli Clare is described as a “Mosaic.” In this series of unresolved tensions, Clare brings together personal narrative, poetry, and speculative engagements with key historical figures to grapple with […]
Category Archives: Climate
The Great Warming: The Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Description Demonstrates the effects of climate change from Central America to Europe during the 10th-15th centuries, as well as the later effects which this climate change had on multiple civilizations when these same places were […]
The Age of Global Warming
Description Overall survey, focuses more on the West (including Latin America, which not all “Western surveys” do) and the theorteical reasons underlying contemporary attitudes toward climate change; but takes into account, throughout the book, earlier […]
Historia de los cambios climaticos
Description Excellent overall view, rooted in anthropology and ethnology, regarding how climate change affects cultures and social morals throughout the world. While an wide chronological perspective is the norm, there are excellent individual pieces dealing […]
“The Morality of Plagiarism: Voltaire, Diderot and the Legacy of Graffigny’s Cénie.”
Description Explains how Graffigny’s play, which was a great success from its first performance until the end of the author’s life, later falls into oblivion due to evolving attitudes toward plagiarism. Kelley argues that accusations […]
Medicine in the Boudoir: Sade and Moral Hygiene in Post-Thermidorean France
Description Situates Sade’s work into the cultural and intellectual context during the Age of Enlightenment by focusing on Sade’s engaged approach to scientific culture, epistemology and social reforms and analyzes his medical appropriation of these […]
“The Evolution of Climate Ideas and Knowledge”
Description Begins by examining the “new science of the seveneteenth century” in enlightenment Europe. Heymann shows that the new science of observation, especially scientific weather observation, led to the evolution of climate ideas and knowledge […]
History and Nature in the Enlightenment: Praise of the Mastery of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Historical Literature
Description Outlines how eighteenth-century historians emphasized the use of nature as a precondition for cultural progress. Discusses such things as climatic theories, and stadial theories. Creator Wolloch, Nathaniel Publisher Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2011. Contributor […]
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Description Explores the representational challenges posed by environmental catastrophes that unfold incrementally, in a less spectacular, less visible way than dramatic events. Nixon presents examples of writers doing the conceptual work of making “slow violence” […]
Subjugated Animals: Animals and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern European Culture
Description Discusses early modern attitudes toward animals with an emphasis on anthropocentrism, and on interdisciplinary sources, including intellectual history, the history of science, literature and art. Creator Nathaniel Wolloch Publisher (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books / […]