by Cary Wolfe (Author), Cary Wolfe (Author), Matthew Chrulew (Author), Matthew Chrulew (Author), Deborah B. Rose (Author), Thom van Dooren (Author)
Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters-and to whom.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 256
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 13 Jun 2017
ISBN 10: 0231178816
ISBN 13: 9780231178815
Book Overview: Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters-and to whom.