1-20 of 44 Search Results for

environmentalism

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 21–31.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Ursula K. Heise The environmental humanities have emerged over the last decade as a new interdisciplinary matrix that connects environmentally oriented research in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. This new area of research defines ecological issues as social and cultural rather than...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 55–82.
Published: 01 August 2016
... veterinarian to zoological director to global conservation activist, the article shows that the Malthusian fears that underpinned Grzimek's plea for national parks in sub-Saharan Africa that segregated people and wildlife had their origins in an environmental Kulturkritik born of post-Nazi and Cold War...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 105–126.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Konrad Ott There are three broad categories of values in environmental ethics: instrumental, inherent moral, and eudemonistic. While instrumental values refer to ways humans are reliant on nature, inherent moral values give natural beings direct moral standing. Eudemonic values can pave the way...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2016
... on the planet's ecosystems have forced the humanities to reassess such anthropological and biological assumptions. Recent strategies of the environmental humanities include either reformulating classic humanism with ecological frames or seeking alternative, “posthumanist” perspectives that avoid its inherent...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 169–189.
Published: 01 August 2020
...André Krebber Abstract This article explores Theodor W. Adorno’s recovery of natural beauty in Aesthetic Theory against the background of current debates in environmental aesthetics and evinces the relationship of his reading of natural beauty to his critique of the domination of nature. From...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 69–97.
Published: 01 November 2024
... history, anticipates some of the most topical contemporary work in the environmental humanities. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024 symbol allegory Gestalt environmentalism antihumanism “As the hieroglyphs attest,” write Max Horkheimer...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 83–104.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Hannes Bergthaller Scholars in the environmental humanities frequently argue that a clear understanding of humanity's ecological embeddedness is sufficient to dismantle the anthropocentric biases of traditional humanism. Following Hans Blumenberg's interpretation of the Copernican turn...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 127–151.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Axel Goodbody This article considers the human-nature relationship in modern Heimat (homeland) discourse and its depiction in literary representations of Heimat . The first part examines the environmental turn in thinking on Heimat in the 1970s and shows how it was part of a wider shift...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 61–69.
Published: 01 November 2023
... racialization of environmental harm, and the question of the future on a warming planet as vividly described by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2022 report. The late 1950s matters to the history of the Holocaust and its connections to the experience of prosperity in the postwar period...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 99–123.
Published: 01 November 2024
... transformation rather than blindly calling for the transformation of given limits. Pace Adorno, such natural-historical critique may clarify emerging forms of political praxis, especially those fighting for environmental justice. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 115–141.
Published: 01 August 2007
... and the Environmental Tradition (London: Routledge, 1991); Karl Kroeber, Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biol- ogy of Mind (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994); Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 63–82.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., 1996), 113–45. Reinhold Martin 67 and symbols. Many of these were devoted to measuring environmental, geo- political, and economic risk, and the corollary risk of ecological or social crisis (or, in the policy think tanks, nuclear war). Exemplary here...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
Published: 01 February 2022
...: resilience, the concept, saving time ( Zeitgewinn ), and consolation ( Trost ). Resilience is flexible stability, and each of the other constants support being resilient to environmental and emotional perturbations ( BDM , 608, 591). This section examines “the concept.” The wider horizon associated...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 185–192.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to take decisive action and not simply let the status quo stretch out into the abyss. Indeed, one part of German history that has shown continued life is the field of environmental history, from David Blackbourn’s chronicle of canal building and Astrid Eckert on the environmental border and Thomas...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 153–176.
Published: 01 August 2016
..., 2013 . www.gutenberg.org/files/1636/1636-h/1636-h.htm . Plumwood Val . 1993 . Feminism and the Mastery of Nature . London : Routledge . ———. 2002 . Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason . London : Routledge . Rigby Kate . 2007 . “(K)ein Klang der...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 177–197.
Published: 01 August 2016
.... Driver Thackwray S. . 1996 . “Time, Mankind, and the Earth.” In Time-Scales and Environmental Change , edited by Driver Thackwray S. Chapman Graham P. , 1 – 24 . London : Routledge . Crutzen Paul J. 2006 . “The ‘Anthropocene.’” In Earth System Science...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 125–155.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., as both director and cameraman, occasionally engages in verbal give-and-take with the people before the lens. These films share his oeuvre’s focus on underlying continuities (work, social bonds, environmental degradation, xenophobia) when seen against the rapacious passage of time. In what follows, I...
FIGURES | View All (9)
Journal Article
New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 87–102.
Published: 01 August 2012
... as a resource and a problem. In the 1970s and 1980s it became evident that heavy industry was generating massive environmental problems, reflecting the dystopian side of the waste issue. While pollution dominated the everyday experience of many citizens, the GDR government ignored this thorny issue...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 225–235.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of rewilding is the old project of environmentally charged ethno-regenesis. It is already hinted at in Lutz Heck’s “German” zoo sections. Just as Germans driving along the “sinuous curves” ( schwingende Bahnen ) of the new autobahn will get to experience their country more closely and thus feel and become more...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 1–38.
Published: 01 November 2018
... , and Lampugnani Vittorio Magnago , 106 – 33 . New York : Museum of Modern Art . Murphy David T. 1999 . “ ‘A Sum of the Most Wonderful Things’: Raum , Geopolitics, and the German Tradition of Environmental Determinism, 1900–1933 .” History of European Ideas 25 , no. 3 : 121 – 33...