What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals Schuster Joshua
What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals Schuster Joshua Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. What Is Extinction? Human activity is changing…
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What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals Schuster Joshua
Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. What Is Extinction? Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction.
Understanding these extinction events also involves examining what happens when the conceptual and cultural forms used to account for species finitude are pressed to their limits as well. examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to document and interpret these events.Offering a critical theory for the critically endangered, Joshua Schuster proposes that different discourses of limits and lastness appear in specific extinction events over time as a response to changing attitudes toward species frailty. Schuster provides close readings of several case studies of extinction that
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