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The essays collected here, by both eminent and emerging scholars, engage interlocutors from Machiavelli to Arendt. Individually, they contribute compelling readings of important political thinkers and add fresh insights to debates in areas such as environmentalism and human rights. Together, the volume issues a call to think anew about nature, not only as a traditional concept that should be deconstructed or affirmed but also as a site of human political activity and struggle worthy of sustained theoretical attention.
Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Politics on the Terrain of Second Nature Crina Archer, Laura Ephraim, and Lida Maxwell 1. Necessity and Fortune: Machiavelli's Politics of Nature Yves Winter 2. Burning the Dead and the Ways of Nature Thomas Laqueur 3. Corpses for Kilowatts? Mourning, Justice, Burial, and the Ends of Humanism Bonnie Honig 4. "The Unnatural Growth of the Natural": Reconsidering Nature and Artifi ce in the Context of Biotechnology Ashley Biser 5. Potentialities of Second Nature: Agamben on Human Rights Ayten Gundogdu 6. The Utopian Content of Reifi cation: Adorno's Critical Social Theory of Nature Christopher Buck 7. From Nature to Matter Jane Bennett Notes List of Contributors Index
