Second Nature: Rethinking the Natural through Politics - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823251411 ISBN 13: 9780823251414

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The essays collected here, by both eminent and emerging scholars, engage interlocutors from Machiavelli to Arendt. Individually, they contribute compelling readings of important political thinkers and add fresh insights to debates in areas such as environmentalism and human rights. Together, the volume issues a call to think anew about nature, not only as a traditional concept that should be deconstructed or affirmed but also as a site of human political activity and struggle worthy of sustained theoretical attention.

About this title

About the Author:

Crina Archer is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Northwestern University. She is completing a dissertation project that examines temporality in democratic political thought, with a focus on temporal representations of revolutionary change. She is coauthor of Obstacles to Ethical Decision Making: Mental Models, Milgram, and the Problem of Obedience (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Review:

“Archer, Ephraim, and Maxwell have compiled a fascinating array of analyses of what Nietzsche termed ‘second nature’: the agonistic, original attempt to create and recreate the human self. The collection brings together familiar and new voices, each investigating the overlaps and mutual constitutions between nature and culture, human and nonhuman, life and matter. The book leaves us aware of the struggles with the world in which beings of all sorts engage, over the materiality of life, over the situatedness of being, and over the inevitability of death.” (―Kennan Ferguson University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0823251411
• ISBN 13: 9780823251414
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Archer Crina, Ephraim Laura, Maxwell Lida