Environmental Reflections on the Anthropocene

Gabriel R. Ricci is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College, USA, and teaches environmental ethics, political philosophy and ancient philosophy. He has published on phenomenology and time consciousness, and politics, technology and ethics. Recent publications with Routledge include Natural Communions (2019) and The Persistence of Critical Theory (2017).

• Introduction 1. Nature in the Anthropocene 2. On The Severance of Production from Reproduction: Simone de Beauvoir and Ecofeminist Critical Theory 3. Nature, Art and Gender in Renaissance Italy: A Counter Narrative 4. Universal Application: The Natural World as Metaphor and Phenomenon in Melville, Thoreau, and Dickinson 5. The Raging Torrent: Myth, Metaphor and Technology 6. The Ecology of the Color Purple in Greco-Roman Antiquity 7. The Byzantine Experience of the Natural World 8. An Eco-Spirituality of Wonder: An Aesthetic-Ethical Response to Myriad Nature 9. The Sovereign Body of Country 10. When Coyote Stole Rabbit’s Heart: O’odham Himdag, Environmental Sovereignty, and the End of the American Empire 11. Re-Centering the Ancient-Enduring Indigenous Lens 12. Permaculture as a System for Designing Sustainable Human Settlements: Ahead of its Time or Impossible Dream? 13. A Paradox of the Anthropocene: The Radicalization of Techno-Scientific Modernity and the Future of Solar Geoengineering