Shaping the Future
Literary Imagination in the Anthropocene. German-Italian Perspectives
Edited by Cristina Savettieri Edited by Christina Schaefer
Hardback (Published)
(June 2025)
ISBN: 9783515139298
6.69 x 9.49 inches
Price: $90.00
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In view of the global crisis triggered by climate change and other ecological problems of the Anthropocene, there is growing concern that the age of humans on Earth could be coming to an end. The question of the future of the human species on the planet and its scope for action has been a source of debate in literature for a long time. This volume shows that literature helps us to understand the future not simply as a time to come, but as a realm of potential and change. It reflects on how literature casts new perspectives on traditional concepts and relationships such as human/environment, nature/culture or past/future. The contributions collected in this volume bring together German and Italian perspectives and draw from different disciplines (e.g., literary criticism, philosophy, psychoanalysis). They examine different cultural contexts (in Europe, America, and Africa) and focus on periods of literary history, ranging from Romanticism to the 21st century. They all outline an idea of how we can imagine the future beyond the extremes of a blind belief in progress on the one hand and the fear of catastrophe on the other.
Cristina Savettieri is Associate Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Pisa
- Edited by Cristina Savettieri
- Edited by Christina Schaefer
Other Titles in this Series
Die Ordnung der Kommunikation und die Kommunikation der Ordnungen. Bd. 2
Zentralität: Papsttum und Orden im Europa des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts
Die Ordnung der Kommunikation und die Kommunikation der Ordnungen. Bd. 1
Netzwerke: Klöster und Orden im Europa des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts
Heinrich Mylius (1769–1854) und die deutsch-italienischen Verbindungen im Zeitalter der Revolution
Die Lombardei und das nordalpine Europa im frühen 19. Jahrhundert
Italien, Deutschland und die europäische Einheit / Italia, Germania e l’unità europea
Zum 30-jährigen Jubiläum des Berliner Mauerfalls / Riflessioni a trent'anni dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino
Arte e Scienza / Kunst und Wissenschaft
Miscellanea in onore di Aldo Venturelli / Festschrift zu Ehren von Aldo Venturelli
Massenparteien im 20. Jahrhundert
Christ- und Sozialdemokraten, Kommunisten und Faschisten in Deutschland und Italien
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