Title Environmental humanities and the uncanny : ecoculture, literature and religion / Rod Giblett

Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge explorations in environmental studies Routledge explorations in environmental studies. Contents The uncanniness of Freud's uncanny -- Alligators, crocodiles and the monstrous uncanny -- The uncanny urban underside -- The uncanniness of Schelling's uncanny -- The uncanny and the work of Walter Benjamin -- The uncanny cyborg -- The uncanny and the fictional -- The uncanny Commonwealth of Christianity -- The uncanny commonwealth of Christianity -- The living Polytheism of the Fung Loy Kok institute of Taoism/Taoist Tai Chi Summary Sigmund Freud's essay 'The Uncanny' is celebrating a century since publication. It is arguably his greatest and most fruitful contribution to the study of culture and the environment. Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny brings into the open neglected aspects of the uncanny inthis famous essay in its centenary year and in the work of those before and after him, such as Friedrich Schelling, Walter Benjamin, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Bram Stoker. This book does so by focussing on religion, especially at a time and for a world in which some sectors of the monotheisms are in aggressive, and sometimes violent, contention against those of other monotheisms, and even against other sectors within their own monotheism. The chapter on Schelling's uncanny argues that monotheisms come out of polytheism and makes the plea for polytheism central to the whole book. It enables rethinking the relationships between mythology and monotheistic and polytheistic religions in a culturally and politically liberatory and progressive way. Succeeding chapters consider the uncanny cyborg, the uncanny and the fictional, and the uncanny and the Commonwealth, concluding with a chapter on Taoism as a polytheistic religion. Building on the author's previous work in Environmental Humanities and Theologies in bringing together theories of religion and the environment, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, ecocultural studies and religion Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Psychoanalysis and the humanities. Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis) Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature. Ecotheology. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. NATURE -- Ecology. RELIGION -- General. Ecotheology Psychoanalysis and the humanities Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis) Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature Form Electronic book LC no. 2020693546 ISBN 9780429059759 0429059752 9780429576652 042957665X 9780429574542 0429574541 9780429578762 0429578768

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