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  • The Earth Intoxicated on Imagination

    Series series Elements in Environmental Humanities
    The aim of this Element is to forge new conceptual tools to give more ecological power to the human imagination. Imagination, both an innovative force and one that distances and blinds, is central to the ecological crisis as well as its potential resolution. Human imagination creates a bubble of denial, fostering the illusion of a smooth, reassuring, controlled, and neatly compartmentalized world. ... Read more

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  • Merleau-Ponty: An Ontology of the Imaginary

    Translated by Bryan Smyth ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This study brings to light the original concept of the imaginary that emerges from Merleau Ponty’s thought. It elucidates the main influences that contributed to shaping Merleau-Ponty’s theory of the imaginary and aims to show that this novel concept constitutes one of the most crucial yet challenging keys to his philosophy and ultimately his ontology.This book develops the ontology of the imagery ... Read more

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  • The Imaginary of Animals

    Series series Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
    This book explores the phenomenon of animal imagination and its profound power over the human imagination. It examines the structural and ethical role that the human imagination must play to provide an interface between humans’ subjectivity and the real cognitive capacities of animals.The book offers a systematic study of the increasing importance of the metaphors, the virtual, and figures in ... Read more

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  • Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene

    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The term “Anthropocene”, the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and place of ... Read more

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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