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The paper discusses two of the currently most influential discourses in the environmental humanities, posthumanism and the Anthropocene, in the light of the concept of 'ecohumanism' suggested by the title of the present new journal. This concept resonates with the approach of a cultural ecology in literary studies and the environmental humanities, which takes an in-between stance between a radically ecocentric posthumanism and a narrowly anthropocentric humanism. The paper addresses four different domains in which such an ecologically redefined humanism can productively respond to some of the paradoxes and unresolved questions in current environmental studies: (1) the ambiguous role of science and the search for a valid basis of scholarly truth-claims; (2) the question of the subject, and of personal vs. impersonal agency; (3) the role of the archive and of the cultural past in Anthropocene thought and writing; and (4) the relation of the human and the non-human, and of the future of (eco-)humanism in the Anthropocene.

Key words: German ecocriticism, cultural ecology, Peter Finke, Gregory Bateson, cultural ecosystem, cultural self-renewal, Turkish ecocriticism, discursive representationEcocriticism is gaining increasing international recognition as a field of research that opens up new perspectives reaffirming the relevance and responsibility of the humanities, in an age of pressing social and political problems seemingly incapable of purely technological and economic solutions. Many of its most significant practitioners in Germany subscribe to the theory of Cultural Ecology. Drawing on the ideas of Gregory Bateson, Peter Finke and others, Cultural Ecology presents a new framework for understanding the particular contribution of literature and art to our general social knowledge, including knowledge about our relationship with the natural environment. Palabras clave: ecocrítica alemana, ecología cultural, Peter Finke, Gregory Bateson, ecosistema cultural, renacimiento cultural, ecocrítica turca, representación discursivaLa ecocrítica está obteniendo cada vez más reconocimiento internacional como un campo de investigación que establece nuevas perspectivas que reafirman la relevancia y la responsabilidad de las humanidades en una era de problemas políticos y sociales urgentes que, aparentemente, no encuentran solución puramente tecnológica ni económica. Muchos de sus profesionales más importantes en Alemania se adhieren a la teoría de la Ecología Cultural. Valiéndose de las ideas de Gregory Bateson, Peter Finke y otros, se ha desarrollado un nuevo marco para entender la contribución particular de la literatura y del arte a nuestro conocimiento social general, incluyendo el conocimiento sobre nuestra relación con el entorno natural.

Die Environmental Humanities als sich international etablierendes Forschungsfeld finden zunehmend auch im deutschsprachigen Raum Beachtung. Sie bieten einen transdisziplinären Rahmen, in dem das Umweltwissen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften gebündelt und in seinem Beitrag zur ökologischen Umgestaltung der Gesellschaft erforscht wird. Der Band versammelt Essays aus den Disziplinen Geschichte, Humangeographie, Philosophie, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, Soziologie, Kommunikationswissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Er rückt die ethischen, politischen, kulturellen, sozialen, literarischen und künstlerischen Dimensionen der Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehung in den Blick, die für das Verständnis der historischen Ursachen und der gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen der Umweltkrise ebenso unabdingbar sind wie für die Entwicklung nachhaltiger Zukunftsperspektiven. The Environmental Humanities are a dynamic international research field, which is gaining attention in the German-speaking world as well. They offer a transdisciplinary framework for bringing together the environmental knowledge of the humanities and social sciences in order to assess and communicate their contribution to the ecological transformation of society. The volume features essays from a broad spectrum of disciplines including history, human geography, literary and cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, communication science and economics. It illuminates the ethical, political, cultural, social, literary and artistic dimensions of the relationship between humanity and the environment, which are indispensable for our understanding of the historical roots and contemporary challenges of the ecological crisis as well as for the development of sustainable perspectives for the future.

Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Preface -- I. Censorship and Exile in Comparative Perspective -- Heide Ziegler (Stuttgart): Exile and Self-Censorship: Thomas Mann and Vladimir Nabokov -- Works Cited -- Christoph Henke (Augsburg): The Jealousy of Displacement: James Joyce's Exiles and Edward Said's "Reflections on Exile" -- Introduction -- The Estrangement of Exile -- The Writer in Exile -- The Jealousy of Exile -- Exiled in Literary History -- Works Cited -- Katja Sarkowsky (Münster): Out of Egypt, Out of Place: Memory, Exile and Diaspora in André Aciman's and Edward Said's Memoirs -- Exile, Diaspora, and Narratives of Self -- Ambivalent (Be)‌Longings: Out-of-Placeness as a State of Being and a State of Mind -- André Aciman: Out of Egypt (1994) -- Edward Said: Out of Place (1999) -- Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- Lars Hinrichs (Austin): Tropes of Exile in Everyday Caribbean-Diasporic Speech: The Reindexicalization of Dread Talk in the Jamaican Diaspora -- Introduction -- Background: Exodus in Rastafarian Theology -- Background: Dread Talk as Part of the Linguistic Environment of the Jamaican Diaspora -- Analysis: Forms of Dread Talk in Diasporic Jamaican Discourse -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- II. Censorship and Exile in Historical Perspective -- Iris Zimmermann (Augsburg): Variance and Censorship in Medieval Love Lyrics -- Medieval Censorship Connoting Assessment -- Detecting Acts of Censorship -- Etymology of ˋCensorship' -- A Text's Production and its Transmission in Pre-Printing Middle Ages -- Pre-Writing and Post-Writing Censorship -- Case Study: Hausbuch des Michael de Leone -- (1) Analysis of Extract I, 3-4 -- (2) Analysis of Extract I, 9 -- (3) Analysis of Extract V, 8 -- Final Prospects -- Works Cited -- Freimut Löser (Augsburg): Resisting Censorship: Cases of the Early Fourteenth Century -- Introduction