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Author: Vincent Bruyere
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Imprint: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9781503638631
ISBN 10: 1503638634
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 19 September 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""If all images are vanitas, how should we look, in the Anthropocene present, at works from the past? Bruyere reveals a profound disruption in our ability to represent 'the world without us' with familiar tools of mastery or closure.""—Karen Pinkus, Cornell University ""Concise in form, its arguments well crafted, this book reads with inspired conviction. By way of reading the future past, Bruyere delivers a saga and a symptom of the state of things in the fragile world in which we live.""—Tom Conley, Harvard University ""Timely and provocative, this book deftly and courageously broaches the topic of human extinction while developing truly original philosophical arguments. There is no work that is able to approach the end-of-the-world theme with the pitch-perfect tone Bruyere brings to his discussion.""—Lynne Huffer, Emory University ""Bruyere offers a thought-provoking assessment of the role of humanistic inquiry in a contemporary moment characterized by the impact of humanity on Earth's geology and ecosystems.... The book is an important contribution to discussions on the cultural forms of environmental politics and offers a new kind of environmental responsiveness in humanistic inquiry—one that is attuned to the complex interplay of facts, sediments, conjectures, and contested temporal narratives. Recommended.""—A. Ponce de Leon, CHOICE"
"""If all images are vanitas, how should we look, in the Anthropocene present, at works from the past? Bruyere reveals a profound disruption in our ability to represent 'the world without us' with familiar tools of mastery or closure.""—Karen Pinkus, Cornell University ""Concise in form, its arguments well crafted, this book reads with inspired conviction. By way of reading the future past, Bruyere delivers a saga and a symptom of the state of things in the fragile world in which we live.""—Tom Conley, Harvard University ""Timely and provocative, this book deftly and courageously broaches the topic of human extinction while developing truly original philosophical arguments. There is no work that is able to approach the end-of-the-world theme with the pitch-perfect tone Bruyere brings to his discussion.""—Lynne Huffer, Emory University"
Author Information
Vincent Bruyere is Associate Professor of French at Emory University. He is the author of Perishability Fatigue: Forays in Environmental Loss and Decay (2018).
