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Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon - Rethinking Cosmopolis (Paperback)
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Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon - Rethinking Cosmopolis (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
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The work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has often been the
testing-ground for innovations in literary studies, but this has
not been true of ecocriticism. This is partly because, until
recently, most ecologically minded writers have located the origins
of ecological crisis in the Enlightenment, with the legacies of the
Cartesian cogito singled out as a particular cause of our current
woes. Traditionally, Renaissance writers were tacitly (or,
occasionally, overtly) presumed to be oblivious of environmental
degradation and unaware that the episteme-the conceptual edifice of
their historical moment-was beginning to crack. This perception is
beginning to change, and Dr. Guber's work is poised to illuminate
the burgeoning number of ecocritical studies devoted to this
period, in particular, by showing how the classical concept of the
cosmopolis, which posited the harmonious integration of the Order
of Nature (cosmos) with the Order of Society (polis), was at once
revived and also systematically dismantled in the Renaissance.
Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Rethinking
Cosmopolis demonstrates that the Renaissance is the hinge, the
crucial turning point in the human-nature relationship and examines
the persisting ecological consequences of the nature-state's
demise.
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