Break Up the Anthropocene (Forerunners: Ideas First)

Mentz, Steve

ISBN 10: 1517908620 / ISBN 13: 9781517908621

Published by Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Break Up the Anthropocene (Forerunners: Ideas First)
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1517908620
• ISBN 13: 9781517908621
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch 

We live in a new world: the Anthropocene. The Age of Man is defined in many ways, and most dramatically through climate change, mass extinction, and human marks in the geological record. Ideas of the Anthropocene spill out from the geophysical sciences into the humanities, social sciences, the arts, and mainstream debates—but it’s hard to know what the new coinage really means. Break Up the Anthropocene argues that this age should subvert imperial masculinity and industrial conquest by opening up the plural possibilities of Anthropocene debates of resilience, adaptation, and the struggle for environmental justice. 

Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

About the Author

Steve Mentz is professor of English at St. John’s University. He is the author of Shipwreck Modernity (Minnesota, 2015), At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean (2009), and Romance for Sale in Early Modern England (2006).