David Aberbach

The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000400052
• Artikelnr.: 62172713

Autorenporträt

David Aberbach is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, McGill University, Montreal, Canada and Honorary Visiting Associate at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, UK. His books include, Surviving Trauma: Loss, Literature, and Psychoanalysis (1989); Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media (1996); National Poetry, Empires and War (2016), and Nationalism, War and Jewish Education (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Dr. Helen Gavin A Note on the Hebrew Bible Introduction 1. The
environment and the betrayal of the covenant 2. Nature and the biblical
calendar: festivals and psalms 3.'Promised lands' and national poetry 4.
Sacred landscapes in exile 5. Kadosh! Kadosh! Kadosh! 6. The Bible, charity
and agricultural law 7. The piper at the gates of dawn: loss and Nature 8.
'Man is the tree of the field' 9. Free will, divine Law and science 10.
Energy and its abuse 11. Environmental disaster in the Bible 12. The
apocalyptic beast let loose 13. Swords to ploughshares: the vision of
universal peace 14. Humility: God's reply to Job from the whirlwind - where
were you? 15. Industry and the Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth and Goethe 16.
The environment and 'Condition of England' novelists 17. Marx: the
industrial environment as crime 18. Ibsen, Chekhov, and the moral
environment 19. The rediscovery of Nature in Mendele, Bialik, and
Tchernichowsky 20. The Waste Land: sin and suffering 21. Environmental
abuse in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath 22. Post-1945 literature: the
quest for a lost Eden Bibliography