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• W240187611 abstract "Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby, eds. Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Pp. x + 326. $35 (cloth). This is a timely and substantial volume. Readers already closely involved with ecocritical debate will find a capacious, multi-layered and multi-voiced, internal critique of the field while for newcomers it will provide an informative overview. It is also well planned in its internal structure. Divided into sections, it opens with reassessments of the deeper history of ecological concern through such figures as Raymond Williams, and moves at the end to more recent and more technically demanding systems of thought as in Niklas Luhmann, Ilya Prigogine and Gilles Deleuze. More significantly, perhaps, the contributors are in a dialogue of mutual critique as happens when the essay based on Prigogine explicitly challenges the emphases of Luhmann adopted in one of the immediately preceding contributions. Likewise, the essay drawing on the ethical vision of Levinas seeks to come beneath the existential insights of Heidegger promoted earlier while that on the physical materials of the earliest Bibles suggests a level of consideration possibly undercutting that of all academic discourse. For many literary-oriented readers, perhaps especially for Lawrenceans, the word theory in the title may cause the heart to sink in expectation of yet another empty grinding of cerebral cogs, but the present volume offers something richer and more important. There may be two reasons for this. One is that the volume effectively reaffirms the significant tradition of post-romantic European thought that has always challenged the post-Cartesian model of consciousness and In other words, it has historical and philosophical gravitas. The other reason is that it is only tangentially about literature. A common model of academic essay in recent decades has been the claim to new insight into a literary author by reading in the light of a philosophical or cultural theorist. In practice this often leads either to a perverse misreading or to a banal reading more exposed than disguised by its novel wrappings. The present essays, by contrast, are more centrally concerned with the philosophical issues at stake in each case and make, in some instances, only brief, illustrative use of literary texts. The centre of gravitas of the volume is not literary, and for that reason it is the more interesting for serious readers of literature. Central themes throughout are the fallacy of the Cartesian mind/body, or consciousness/world split and the related division of the two cultures of science and humanities. In various ways, the ecological crisis has put these conventional categories under a dissolving pressure from the outside to reinforce an already existing internal momentum towards a dissolution of disciplinary boundaries. This is partly because human and non-human are now understood to be in a mutually porous relation such that the very distinction has begun to shimmer. At least as a general emphasis, all this will be familiar and sympathetic to readers of Lawrence whose great concern was the impoverishment of human life when it loses its connection with the non-human. And who also, of course, promoted an art of true relatedness as well as desiderating a mode of science, like that he found in some ancient cultures, which acknowledged the human involvement in world. That Lawrence is accorded a whole chapter in such a volume is a suggestive index of his changing reputation. Over the final three decades of the last century the academic and related journalistic responses to him were widely dismissive. In an age preoccupied with ideological and political correctnesses he ruffled all the feathers. But by the end of the century with the advent of ecological concerns his underlying philosophical investigation of the human place in the non-human world has become newly important. …" @default.
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