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Imperfectualism
(Hardcover)
Lorin Morgan-Richards; Illustrated by Lorin Morgan-Richards
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In recent decades, green chemistry dominated the imagination of
sustainability scholars all over the world and was embraced by
leading global universities and companies. This new concept is
supposed to address the environmental crisis by making chemistry
safer and less polluting. And yet, under this seemingly
straightforward success story hides a tangled and ambiguous
reality: alternative frameworks, shoddy greenness criteria, and
power struggles. This book retraces the history of the green
chemistry concept and critically assesses its claims and dominant
narratives about it. It is an indispensable guide for all those
interested in the challenges of sustainability, whether they have
background in chemistry or not. Its underlying question is: is
green chemistry really that green?
What does it mean to consider philosophy as a species of not just
literature but world literature? The authors in this collection
explore philosophy through the lens of the "worlding" of
literature--that is, how philosophy is connected and reconnected
through global literary networks that cross borders, mix stories,
and speak in translation and dialect. Historically, much of the
world's most influential philosophy, from Plato's dialogues and
Augustine's confessions to Nietzsche's aphorisms and Sartre's
plays, was a form of literature--as well as, by extension, a form
of world literature. Philosophy as World Literature offers a
variety of accounts of how the worlding of literature problematizes
the national categorizing of philosophy and brings new meanings and
challenges to the discussion of intersections between philosophy
and literature.
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