Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination

by Taylor Eggan

Book Overview

The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity's displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis's homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco-phenomenology. If only we can reestablish our sense of material enmeshment in nature, so the logic goes, we might...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813946840
• ISBN13: 9780813946849
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"