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Ecopolitics is a study of environmental awareness--or non-awareness--in contemporary French theory. Arguing that it is now impossible not to think in an ecological way, Verena Andermatt Conley traces the roots of today's concern for the environment back to the intellectual climate of the late 50s and 60s. Major thinkers of 1968, the author argues, changed the way we think about the world; this owes much to an ecological awareness that remains at the heart of issues concerning cultural theory in general. The book points to critiques of ecology in the work of Luc Ferry and Jean Baudrillard before turning to more complicated ecological awareness primarily in French thought. The author considers key texts by influential figures such as Michael Serres, Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Michel de Certeau, Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray. Ecopolitics rehabilitates some ecological components of French intellectual thought of the past thirty years, and reassesses French poststructural thinkers who explicitly deal with ecology in their work. The book will appeal to readers who are interested in the diverse strands of thought in ecology today, as well as to students of gender and cultural studies.

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This is a book to read and reread. For not only are the insights of the author herself highly valuable . . . she also conveys, in an exciting way, and from an ecological perspective, some of the most important ideas of such thinkers as Deleuze, Guattari, Serres, Cixous and Irigaray.. A worthy read. - Political Geography Verena Andermatt Conley demonstrates that ecological thinking was an extremely important element in the formation of poststructuralism and she thus powerfully reorients our understanding of that innovative generation of French thought. Moreover the ecopolitics that emerge from her readings is innovative and refreshingly different from the various strands of ecological thought dominant in the Anglophone world today. -Michael Hardt, Duke University ... the attention Conley draws to the geophilosophical basis of Deleuze and Guattari's thought...is the most important feature of her book... So what ecopolitics must do, and what this book does very well, is initiate a new dialectic, one that balances capitalism and the environment, without allowing the priority generally afforded humans to dictate terms... Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought is undoubtedly deserving of a broad readership. - Ian Buchanan, University of Tasmania

This is a book to read and reread. For not only are the insights of the author herself highly valuable . . . she also conveys, in an exciting way, and from an ecological perspective, some of the most important ideas of such thinkers as Deleuze, Guattari, Serres, Cixous and Irigaray.. <br> A worthy read. <br>- Political Geography <br> Verena Andermatt Conley demonstrates that ecological thinking was an extremely important element in the formation of poststructuralism and she thus powerfully reorients our understanding of that innovative generation of French thought. Moreover the ecopolitics that emerge from her readings is innovative and refreshingly different from the various strands of ecological thought dominant in the Anglophone world today. <br>-Michael Hardt, Duke University <br>... the attention Conley draws to the geophilosophical basis of Deleuze and Guattari's thought...is the most important feature of her book... So what ecopolitics must do, and what this book does very well, is initiate a new dialectic, one that balances capitalism and the environment, without allowing the priority generally afforded humans to dictate terms... Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought is undoubtedly deserving of a broad readership. <br>- Ian Buchanan, University of Tasmania <br>

This is a book to read and reread. For not only are the insights of the author herself highly valuable . . . she also conveys, in an exciting way, and from an ecological perspective, some of the most important ideas of such thinkers as Deleuze, Guattari, Serres, Cixous and Irigaray.. A worthy read. - Political Geography Verena Andermatt Conley demonstrates that ecological thinking was an extremely important element in the formation of poststructuralism and she thus powerfully reorients our understanding of that innovative generation of French thought. Moreover the ecopolitics that emerge from her readings is innovative and refreshingly different from the various strands of ecological thought dominant in the Anglophone world today. -Michael Hardt, Duke University ... the attention Conley draws to the geophilosophical basis of Deleuze and Guattari's thought...is the most important feature of her book... So what ecopolitics must do, and what this book does very well, is initiate a new dialectic, one that balances capitalism and the environment, without allowing the priority generally afforded humans to dictate terms... Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought is undoubtedly deserving of a broad readership. - Ian Buchanan, University of Tasmania

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