Helena Feder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena Feder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena |
| FAMILY NAME | Feder |
| SIGNATURE | FEDER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Desexualisation of the Species or Frankenstein and Possibility of an Island
This article attends to two key literary considerations of desexualisation, namely Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), the world’s first science fiction novel, and a significant contemporary rewriting of it, Michel Houellebecq’s Possibility of an Island (2007). Literature, like other forms of art, often reflects fundamental discontents with sex in ‘civilisation’ and the various inflections of power that ripple through them – including knowledge a…
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‘Dover Beach’ and the uncertain afterlife of Victorian environments
Ian McEwan was among the writers, historians, and philosophers from twenty-one countries who signed a letter published last year in papers across Europe that warned of the rising tide of anti-liberalism and ersatz-populism threatening ‘disdain for intelligence and culture; explosions of xenophobia and antisemitism; disaster.’ One signatory, Orhan Pamuk, said, ‘Without the idea of Europe, freedom, women’s rights, democracy, egalitarianism is hard …
Contradiction IsNotDisappointing
Michael Hardt is a theorist whose work examines philosophical and material forms of
Never Waste a Good Crisis
Dr. Mary Mellor, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Northumbria in the United Kingdom, has published numerous articles and books on feminism, politics, sustainability, and economi
Ecocriticism, Posthumanism, and the Biological Idea of Culture
This article examines the relation of posthumanism to ecocriticism. It contends that ecocriticism and posthumanism are parallel and potentially overlapping fields concerned with biological change and highlights the need for both discipline to address the idea of culture as defined by the binary of nature and culture. It argues that we must focus our philosophical, disciplinary challenge to the anthropocentric orthodoxies of the humanities and str…
Introduction
Introduction:Ecocriticism and Biology Helena Feder (bio) In 1974 Lewis Thomas expressed frustration with cultural criticism's fascination with physics, especially quantum mechanics. "I wish the humanists," he wrote, "would leave physics alone for a while and begin paying more attention to biology."1 Glen Love echoed Thomas's plea for attention to biology in 2003 when he remarked: "If some humanists have been attracted to some of the most difficul…
The Critical Relevance of the Critique of Rationalism
(2002). The Critical Relevance of the Critique of Rationalism: Postmodernism, Ecofeminism, and Voltaire's Candide. Women's Studies: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 199-219
Never Waste a Good Crisis
Dr. Mary Mellor, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Northumbria in the United Kingdom, has published numerous articles and books on feminism, politics, sustainability, and economi
The Critical Relevance of the Critique of Rationalism
(2002). The Critical Relevance of the Critique of Rationalism: Postmodernism, Ecofeminism, and Voltaire's Candide. Women's Studies: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 199-219
Introduction
Introduction:Ecocriticism and Biology Helena Feder (bio) In 1974 Lewis Thomas expressed frustration with cultural criticism's fascination with physics, especially quantum mechanics. "I wish the humanists," he wrote, "would leave physics alone for a while and begin paying more attention to biology."1 Glen Love echoed Thomas's plea for attention to biology in 2003 when he remarked: "If some humanists have been attracted to some of the most difficul…
Ecocriticism, Posthumanism, and the Biological Idea of Culture
This article examines the relation of posthumanism to ecocriticism. It contends that ecocriticism and posthumanism are parallel and potentially overlapping fields concerned with biological change and highlights the need for both discipline to address the idea of culture as defined by the binary of nature and culture. It argues that we must focus our philosophical, disciplinary challenge to the anthropocentric orthodoxies of the humanities and str…
Never Waste a Good Crisis
Dr. Mary Mellor, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Northumbria in the United Kingdom, has published numerous articles and books on feminism, politics, sustainability, and economi
‘Dover Beach’ and the uncertain afterlife of Victorian environments
Ian McEwan was among the writers, historians, and philosophers from twenty-one countries who signed a letter published last year in papers across Europe that warned of the rising tide of anti-liberalism and ersatz-populism threatening ‘disdain for intelligence and culture; explosions of xenophobia and antisemitism; disaster.’ One signatory, Orhan Pamuk, said, ‘Without the idea of Europe, freedom, women’s rights, democracy, egalitarianism is hard …
Contradiction IsNotDisappointing
Michael Hardt is a theorist whose work examines philosophical and material forms of
What Matters Most
Desexualisation of the Species or Frankenstein and Possibility of an Island
This article attends to two key literary considerations of desexualisation, namely Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), the world’s first science fiction novel, and a significant contemporary rewriting of it, Michel Houellebecq’s Possibility of an Island (2007). Literature, like other forms of art, often reflects fundamental discontents with sex in ‘civilisation’ and the various inflections of power that ripple through them – including knowledge a…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works)