Suchergebnisse

Dolittle biosemiotics -- A cave in the Sinai -- Taktsang chronicles -- Ladakh in context -- Searching for Nikos Kazantzakis -- In the company of Ursus arctos -- The paradise lost factor -- Ahimsa -- Antarctic uncertainty -- The end of oil -- Voice of the planet -- World War III -- Liberation biosynthesis -- A new nature -- The dark -- A purgatory of incongruencies -- A parliament of birds -- Quixotic by nature -- The problem with New Zealand -- A trilogy of turmoil -- Finding sanctuary -- The dreams of a donkey -- The mysteries of anthrozoology -- The Yasuní factor -- Protecting Haiti -- Swords into plowshares -- Theoretical considerations -- The life of a nomad -- The renaissance origins of biophilia -- Metaphysical protection -- Hypothetical species -- The bionomics conundrum in Bhutan -- Future paradox -- Coda.

The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? World-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, such as Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Art, Biosemiotics, Ethology and Geography, set the agenda for Animal Studies today. Rather than a narrow specialism, this book shows how we think of other animals to be intrinsic to fields as major as ethics, economies as widespread as capitalism, and relations as common as friendship

"This handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture. Across individual and interpersonal settings, meaning is influenced by external and internal processes bridging phenomenological and biological dimensions. Yet, each of these dyads has been segregated into discipline-specific topics, with attempts to chart their intersections proving preliminary at best. Bringing together perspectives from world-leading experts, this volume seeks to overcome these disciplinary divides between the social and the natural sciences at both empirical and theoretical levels. Chapters chart the foundations of neurosemiotics; characterize linguistic and interpersonal dynamics as shaped by neurocognitive, bodily, situational, and societal factors; and examine other daily neurosemiotic occurrences driven by faces, music, tools, and even visceral signals. This comprehensive volume is a state-of the-art resource for students and researchers interested in how humans and other animals construe experience, in such fields as cognitive neuroscience, biosemiotics, philosophy of mind, neuropsychology, neurolinguistics, and evolutionary biology"--

This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture.Across individual and interpersonal settings, meaning is influenced by external and internal processes bridging phenomenological and biological dimensions. Yet, each of these dyads has been segregated into discipline-specific topics, with attempts to chart their intersections proving preliminary at best. Bringing together perspectives from world-leading experts, this volume seeks to overcome these disciplinary divides between the social and the natural sciences at both the empirical and theoretical levels. Its various chapters chart the foundations of neurosemiotics; characterize linguistic and interpersonal dynamics as shaped by neurocognitive, bodily, situational, and societal factors; and examine other daily neurosemiotic occurrences driven by faces, music, tools, and even visceral signals.This comprehensive volume is a state-of the-art resource for students and researchers interested in how humans and other animals construe experience in such fields as cognitive neuroscience, biosemiotics, philosophy of mind, neuropsychology, neurolinguistics, and evolutionary biology

Introduction : the environmental humanities and the challenges of the anthropocene / Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino -- Posthuman environs / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Environmental history between institutionalization and revolution : a short commentary with two sites and one experiment / Marco Armiero -- Cultural ecology, the environmental humanities, and the transdisciplinary knowledge of literature / Hubert Zapf -- Where is feminism in the environmental humanities? / Greta Gaard -- Seasick among the waves of ecocriticism : an inquiry into alternative historiographic metaphors / Scott Slovic -- The extraordinary strata of the anthropocene / Jan Zalasiewicz -- Worldview remediation in the first century of the new millennium / J. Baird Callicott -- We have never been "anthropos" : from environmental justice to cosmopolitics / Joni Adamson -- Resources (un)LTD : of planets, mining and biogeochemical togetherness / Filippo Bertoni -- Lacuna : minding the gaps of place and class / Lowell Duckert -- Nature/culture/seawater : theory machines, anthropology, oceanization / Stefan Helmreich -- Revisiting the anthropological difference / Matthew Calarco -- Lively ethography : storying animist worlds / Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Rose -- Religion and ecology : towards the communion of creatures / Kate Rigby -- How the earth speaks now : the book of nature and biosemiotics as theoretical resource for the environmental humanities in the twenty-first century / Wendy Wheeler -- How to read a bridge / Rob Nixon -- The Martian book of the dead / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- On rivers / Juan Carlos Galeano -- Can the humanities become posthuman? : a conversation / Rosi Braidotti and Cosetta Veronese