Description Readings in the Anthropocene brings together scholars from German Studies and Beyond to interpret the German tradition of the last two hundred years from a perspective that is mindful of the challenge posed by the concept of the Anthropocene.
He is co-editor of Crimes of Passion: Representations of Sexual Pathology in the Early Twentieth Century (2015)..
She is the author of German Culture and the Modern Environmental Imagination (2015) and editor of From Kafka to Sebald: Modernism and Narrative Form (Bloomsbury, 2012).
Japhet Johnstone is project manager and translator at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Her research and teaching interests include modern German literature and culture, intellectual history and theory, and cultural studies.
About the Author Sabine Wilke is Professor of German at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, where she is also associated with European Studies and the Program in Critical Theory.
What are the historical, philosophical, cultural, literary, and artistic responses to this new concept? The essays in this volume bring German culture to bear on what it means to live in the Anthropocene from a historical, ethical, and aesthetic perspective.
Among the biggest challenges facing our future are climate change, accelerated species loss, and a radical transformation of land use.
This new age of man, unofficially pronounced in 2000, holds that humans are becoming a geological force in shaping the Earth\'s future.
Description Readings in the Anthropocene brings together scholars from German Studies and Beyond to interpret the German tradition of the last two hundred years from a perspective that is mindful of the challenge posed by the concept of the Anthropocene
