Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations

Book Overview

Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters--and to whom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231178816
• ISBN13: 9780231178815
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher