Imagining Earth
Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of Our Home Planet
Contributor(s)
Nitzke, Solvejg (editor)
Pethes, Nicolas (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
101957Language
EnglishAbstract
While concepts of Earth have a rich tradition, more recent examples show a distinct quality: Though ideas of wholeness might still be related to mythical, religious, or utopian visions of the past, ''Earth'' itself has become available as a whole. This raises several questions: How are the notions of one Earth or our Planet imagined and distributed? What is the role of cultural imagination and practices of signification in the imagination of ''the Earth''? Which theoretical models can be used or need to be developed to describe processes of imagining Planet Earth? This collection invites a wide range of perspectives from different fields of the Humanities to explore the means of imagining Earth.
Keywords
Sociology; Ecocriticism; Media; Literature; Earth; Culture; Home Planet; Religion; Mythology; Utopia; Nature; Cultural Theory; Cultural Studies; General Literature Studies; EcologyDOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839439562ISBN
9783839439562OCN
1001359966Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, Germany, 2017-07-15Series
Edition Kulturwissenschaft,Classification
Cultural studies