TY  - GEN
T1  - Thought's wilderness : romanticism and the apprehension of nature
A1  - Ellermann, Greg
LA  - English
PP  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1310469056
AB  - "While much recent ecocriticism has questioned the value of nature as a concept, Thought's Wilderness insists that it is analytically and politically indispensable, and that romanticism shows us why. Without a concept of nature, Greg Ellermann argues, our thinking is limited to the world that capitalism has made. Defamiliarizing the tradition of romantic nature writing, Ellermann contends that the romantics tried to circumvent the domination of nature that is essential to modern capitalism. As he shows, poets and philosophers in the period such as Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley were highly attuned to nature's ephemeral, ungraspable forms: clouds of vapor, a trace of ruin, deep silence, and the "world-surrounding ether." Further, he explains how nature's vanishing - its vulnerability and its flight from apprehension - became a philosophical and political problem. In response to a nascent industrial capitalism, romantic writers developed a poetics of wilderness - a poetics that is attentive to fleeting presence and that seeks to let things be. Trying to imagine what ultimately eludes capture, the romantics recognized the complicity between conceptual and economic domination, and they saw how thought itself could become a technology for control. This insight, Ellermann proposes, motivates romantic efforts to think past capitalist instrumentality and its devastation of the world. Ultimately, this new work undertakes a fundamental rethinking of the aesthetics and politics of nature"--
OP  - 180
CN  - PR447 .E45 2022
SN  - 9781503633018
SN  - 1503633012
SN  - 9781503628489
KW  - English literature : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - English literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Philosophy, German : 18th century.
KW  - Philosophy, German : 19th century.
KW  - Nature in literature.
KW  - Philosophy of nature.
KW  - Romanticism : England.
KW  - Romanticism : Germany.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Philosophie allemande : 18e siècle.
KW  - Philosophie allemande : 19e siècle.
KW  - Nature dans la littérature.
KW  - Philosophie de la nature.
KW  - Romantisme : Angleterre.
KW  - Romantisme : Allemagne.
KW  - English literature
KW  - Nature in literature
KW  - Philosophy, German
KW  - Philosophy of nature
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - England
KW  - Germany
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance.
KW  - 1700-1899
KW  - aesthetics.
KW  - capitalism.
KW  - consciousness.
KW  - ecology.
KW  - nature.
KW  - philosophy.
KW  - poetry.
KW  - romanticism.
KW  - wilderness.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -