In their paper, the authors argue that we owe a lot to Romantics, as they realised that nature only becomes a matter for ethical concern, inspiration and love when the mind and sensibility of the human observer/agent are properly attuned and receptive to its meaning.
This film examines the roles and impact of Berlin’s Spree River, accompanied by a specially composed symphony from Karsten Gundermann.
In literature and the arts, scarcity has often been given a positive interpretation as something to be cherished not shunned, actively endorsed and idealized rather than dismissed as an obstacle to artistic success.
These Boy Scout images, particularly focused on the 1919–1925 era, demonstrate that human labor and history permeated popular American nature ideology and hiking practices at that time.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kate Rigby is interviewed on her book, Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation.
Excerpt from Kate Rigby’s 2020 book Reclaiming Romanticism.
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (Human-Nature Relations in German Literature),” Sabine Wilke discusses texts that register transformations of landscapes or take a position on their causes. For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke discusses texts that register transformations of landscapes or take a position on their causes. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
The German term Wildnis, as is demonstrated in this part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition by historian Patrick Kupper, has always referred to places of difference, distinct by their very separation from society’s cultivated spaces.
