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Books by Timothy Morton

All Art Is Ecological (Penguin Classics), 2021

Hyposubjects , 2021

The age of the hypersubject is over. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/

French translation of The Ecological Thought.

Don't care about ecology? This book is for you!

There is a way of thinking the human that is anti-racist and anti-sexist, a way that involves ant... more There is a way of thinking the human that is anti-racist and anti-sexist, a way that involves anti-speciesism.

Nur scheinbar formuliert Timothy Morton in diesem bahnbrechenden Buch des Ecocriticism ein Parado... more Nur scheinbar formuliert Timothy Morton in diesem bahnbrechenden Buch des Ecocriticism ein Paradox: Das Bild, das wir uns von der Natur machen, verhindert, dass wir der Umwelt, in der wir leben, gerecht werden können, dass wir ihre Ökologie begreifen. Stets trachtet das Schreiben über die Natur danach, eine Weltsicht zu vermitteln, die die Natur bewahrt und respektiert. Kein Wunder, dass wir uns angesichts der ökologischen Katastrophe, die wir erleben, nach einer unversehrten, wilden und ›unschuldigen‹ Natur sehnen. Aber die Feier der Natur, oder der Einheit mit ihr, trübt unseren Blick. Rigoros und verstörend stellt Morton unsere ökologischen Grundannahmen auf den Prüfstand und versucht, ein neues Vokabular für das Verständnis von Natur zu entwickeln. In einem Parforceritt durch die Literatur- und Philosophiegeschichte trägt das Buch dazu bei, unseren Blick auf ökologische Zusammenhänge zu weiten und den Umweltgedanken in einen geistesgeschichtlichen Kontext zu stellen, der ihm politisch und intellektuell mehr Schlagkraft verleiht.

Three very long essays or short books about Buddhism and critical theory. Possibly the first of i... more Three very long essays or short books about Buddhism and critical theory. Possibly the first of its kind in the world.

All Art Is Ecological (Penguin Classics), 2021

Hyposubjects , 2021

The age of the hypersubject is over. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/

French translation of The Ecological Thought.

Don't care about ecology? This book is for you!

What happens when we take the human, and more specifically the bourgeois human, blinkers off the ... more What happens when we take the human, and more specifically the bourgeois human, blinkers off the experience we call beauty? We realize that it is always fringed by disgust. We already have the right emotional chemical for being "scientific"—the mode in which we will care more sincerely for nonhuman beings. It's called, rather surprisingly, ennui, an oscillation between enjoyment and disgust. This is a twelve-inch remix way of thinking about beauty—expanded for an ecological age in which it is clear that beauty was never a human-only affair. That's a perfectly logical thing to say about the arguments on beauty of Immanuel Kant. I will be showing how Kantian beauty is far more strange and radical than we have often thought, and why beauty rather than the sublime is the path towards a more ecologically attuned art.

Philosophy, Dark Ecology, Apr 12, 2016

The Cambridge Companion to Shelley

Anthropocene Unseen, 2020

Romanticism on the net, 2006

Palgrave Advances in Byron Studies, 2007

It sounds perverse to read Byron as an ecological writer, at least in the terms prescribed by our... more It sounds perverse to read Byron as an ecological writer, at least in the terms prescribed by our common perception of him as the ultimate poet of existential irony. As Esther Hibbard put it, almost forty years ago, ‘modern criticism has shown that [Byron] … rebelled against the romantic concept of nature’.1 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers depicts Coleridge soaring ‘to eulogize an ass’ (ll. 261–3), while Bowles sings ‘with equal ease, and grief, / The fall of empires, or a yellow leaf’ (ll. 334–5). The narrator’s refreshingly blunt honesty seems indisposed to re-enchant the world: ‘I like the weather, when it is not rainy, / That is, I like two months of every year’ (Beppo, stanza 47). It is, however, these very features that enable us not only to read him ecologically, but also to use him against a too limited and ideological view of ecological literary criticism.

Romanticism's Debatable Lands, 2007

‘Place’, and in particular the local, has become a key term in Romantic ecocriticism’s rage again... more ‘Place’, and in particular the local, has become a key term in Romantic ecocriticism’s rage against the machine. Rhetorical affect is directly proportional to marginalization, maintaining an ironic barrier to genuine interrelationships between beings.1 I call it ‘beautiful soul syndrome’ after Hegel’s characterization of Romantic subjectivity that perceives a chasm between consciousness and the world, which cannot be fully bridged without compromising the soul’s beauty.2 Instead of wondering how to bridge an unbridgeable gap, ecological thinking might pose another question. To pose a question is to reveal how place and terms such as question are interconnected.

Shelley and the Revolution in Taste, 1995

Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2013

In the insightful style that characterised the successful &amp;amp;#39;The Genius of Shak... more In the insightful style that characterised the successful &amp;amp;#39;The Genius of Shakespeare&amp;amp;#39;, Jonathan Bate has written a series of pieces on the link between literature and the environment, such as the importance of nature in literature.

An analysis of ecological art, poetics and politics.