Peter C. Van Wyck (Wyck, Peter C. Van)

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  Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject
  

  by Peter C. Van Wyck

  ISBN 0791434346 (0-7914-3434-6)
  Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr

  
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  In Primitives in the Wilderness, Peter van Wyck brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology into an encounter with contemporary social and cultural theory. With an eye to critically exposing unexamined essentialist and foundational commitments, the author shows how deep ecology remains profoundly entangled with the very traditions of thought it has sought to overcome. The author critically assesses deep ecology's relations with the Enlightenment, modernity, systems theory, anthropocentrism, the figure of wilderness and the trope of the primitive, and the imagined promise of posthistoric primitivism. He demonstrates the manner in which deep ecology (and much of contemporary environmental thought) has remained blind to the lessons (and possibilities) of contemporary social and poststructural theory.

  Drawing from an array of contemporary theoretical works (including Haraway's figure of the cyborg and situated knowledges, Deleuze's conception of an image of thought, Foucault's panopticon, Trinh on ethnographic authority, Lingis on the "Other," Torgovnick and Clastres's work on the primitive and power, and Vattimo's "weak thought"), van Wyck opens a clearing within which the ecological problematic and the question of the human subject may be rethought. [via]

  More editions of Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject:

  • Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject: ISBN 0791434338 (0-7914-3433-8)
    Hardcover, State Univ of New York Pr
  • Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject: ISBN 0791434346 (0-7914-3434-6)
    Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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  Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat
  

  by Peter C. Van Wyck

  ISBN 0816637636 (0-8166-3763-6)
  Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr

  
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  • Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat: ISBN 0816637628 (0-8166-3762-8)
    Hardcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
  • Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat: ISBN 0816637636 (0-8166-3763-6)
    Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr