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Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics
explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider
communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life,
essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as
narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks in eco-phenomenology
and ecosemiotics to literary, historical, and philosophical study
of the relationship between text and landscape. It considers in
particular examples and lessons to be drawn from case studies of
medieval and Native American cultures, to illustrate in an applied
way the promise of environmental humanities today. In doing so, it
highlights an environmental future for the humanities, on the
cutting edge of cultural endeavor today.
In this collection, world-renowned scholars of Bolshevism and world
communism analyze the human costs of the Bolshevik Revolution, its
contribution to the spread of totalitarianism, and the responses it
inspired among American and Western intellectuals. Together, their
essays constitute a profound refusal of the poesy of
totalitarianism that is based on sober research and detailed
analysis of the limits of utopian politics and the dangers of cruel
ideologies based in the cosmetic aesthetic of moral perfectionism
and lyric intoxication. This study provides an accurate and
succinct depiction of the nature of Bolshevism and its consequences
in light of several decades of research, including former Soviet
archival materials and American intelligence such as the Venona
files.
Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics
explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider
communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life,
essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as
narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks in eco-phenomenology
and ecosemiotics to literary, historical, and philosophical study
of the relationship between text and landscape. It considers in
particular examples and lessons to be drawn from case studies of
medieval and Native American cultures, to illustrate in an applied
way the promise of environmental humanities today. In doing so, it
highlights an environmental future for the humanities, on the
cutting edge of cultural endeavor today.
In this collection, world-renowned scholars of Bolshevism and world
communism analyze the human costs of the Bolshevik Revolution, its
contribution to the spread of totalitarianism, and the responses it
inspired among American and Western intellectuals. Together, their
essays constitute a profound refusal of the poesy of
totalitarianism that is based on sober research and detailed
analysis of the limits of utopian politics and the dangers of cruel
ideologies based in the cosmetic aesthetic of moral perfectionism
and lyric intoxication. This study provides an accurate and
succinct depiction of the nature of Bolshevism and its consequences
in light of several decades of research, including former Soviet
archival materials and American intelligence such as the Venona
files.
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