From Virgin Land to Disney World: Nature and Its Discontents in the USA of Yesterday and Today (Critical Studies: 15) - Bernd Herzogenrath
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With the publication in English in 1930 of Civilization and its Discontents and its thesis that instinct – and, ultimately: nature – had been and must be forever subordinated in order that civilization might thrive and endure, Freud contributed what some contemporaries saw to the central debate of his era -- a debate which had long preoccupied both official American pundits and the American populace at large. At the beginning of the new Millennium, evidence abounds that an American debate still rages over the meaning of “nature,” the rightful weight of instinct, and the status of civilization. The Millennium itself has appeared in popular and official discourses as an appropriate marker of an age in which nature is close to the edge of radical extinction and has also become more and more unreliable as a paradigm for representation and debate. At the same time, the contemporary tailoring of nature to postmodern needs and expectations inevitably reveals the conceptual difficulty of any possible, simple oppositi...
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2001Uitgever: Rodopi Bv Editions432 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 9042013966ISBN-13: 9789042013964Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's paper-covered boards, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: [vi], 432pp., introduction, 20 contributors with illustrations - notes - references, list contributors, table of contents. CONTRIBUTIONS: Bernd Herzogenrath: Nature’s Nation/Nation’s Nature: An Introduction. 1. Adrian J. Ivakhiv: Re-Animations: Instinct and Civility after the Ends of ‘Man’ and ‘Nature’. 2. James Kirwan: The Postmodernist’s Journey Into Nature: From Philo of Alexandria to Pocahontas and Back Again, By Way of Je...
