This volume surveys the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought from the age of Goethe to the present. In a broad spectrum of essays from different periods, disciplines, and genres, it conveys both the uniqueness and the transnational significance of German ecological thought.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Gabriele Dü rbeck, Urte Stobbe, Hubert Zapf, and Evi Zemanek
Part I: Proto-Ecological Thought
1. Cultural History of the Four Elements
Anke Kramer
2. Goethe's Concept of Nature: Proto-Ecological Model
Heather Sullivan
3. Nature, Language, and Religion: Herder and Beyond
Kate Rigby
4. Poet and Philosopher: Novalis and Schelling on Nature and Matter
Berbeli Wanning
5. Alexander von Humboldt as Ecologist
Caroline Schaumann
Part II: Theoretical Approaches
6. Heidegger's Ecological Criticism
Silvio Vietta
7. Ecocriticism and the Frankfurt School
Timo Mü ller
8. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Landscapes
Angelika Krebs
9. Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems
Hannes Bergthaller
10. Risk Theory
Benjamin Bü hler
11. Cultural Ecology
Hubert Zapf
Part III: Environmental History in Germany
12. Thinking the Disaster: A Historical Approach
Francois Walter
13. Industrial Pollution in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Martin Bemmann
14. Cultural Landscapes in Germany - Continuities, Ruptures, and Stewardship
Werner Konold
15. Environmentalism in Germany since 1900: An Overview
Richard Hö lzl
16. History of Substances
Jens Soentgen
Part IV: Ecocritical Case Studies of German Literature
17. From Baroque Pastoral to the Idyll
Jakob Heller
18. German Ecopoetry
Axel Goodbody
19. Elemental Poetics: Material Agency in Contemporary German Poetry
Evi Zemanek
20. Grimms' Fairy Tales and Their Impact on Christa Wolf's Stö rfall
Urte Stobbe
21. German Cold War Bunker Narratives
Wolfgang Lü ckel
22. Climate Change Fiction and Ecothrillers
Gabriele Dü rbeck
Part V: Ecological Visions in Painting, Music, Film, and Land Art
23. The Perception of German Landscapes
Nils Bü ttner
24. Beethoven's Natures
Aaron S. Allen
25. Visions of Nature and Ecological Thought in German Feature Films
Matthias Hurst
26. American Land Art and Ecological Landscape Aesthetics in Europe
Udo Weilacher
