Wild Dog Dreaming Love and Extinction

Name: Wild Dog Dreaming Love and Extinction
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ISBN: 9780813933597

ISBN-10: 0813933595

ISBN-13: 9780813933597

Edition: 2011

Authors: Deborah Bird Rose

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We are living in the midst of the Earth’s sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earth’s systems? Amidst so much change, how do we find our way into new stories to guide us? Rose explores these questions in the form of a dialogue between science and the humanities. Drawing on her conversations with Aboriginal people, for whom questions of extinction are up-close and very personal, Rose develops a mode of exposition that is dialogical, philosophical, and…

Book details

List price: $19.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 3/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?



Looking into Extinction



Bobby's Face, My Love



Ecological Existentialism



Orion's Dog



Singing Up the Others



Job's Grief



What If the Angel of History Were a Dog?



Ruined Faces



World-Crazy



Solomon's Wisdom



The Beginning Law


Notes


Bibliography


Index