Giant sculpture of female bust in a verdant park.
Thinking with Gaia: Towards Environmental Humanities
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The authors begin by tracing the epistemological break between nature and society that took place in the nineteenth century, paying particular attention to the role of the emerging human and social sciences. They then go on to examine the return of Earth history into world history, and the concomitant need to reintegrate nature and the Earth system into our conception of freedom and our practice of democracy.

The historical problem of fundamentalism
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José María asked: Do "fundamentalism" and "moderation" take on the same "connotations" (to use your word) when the "doctrinaire faithful" are seen as existing within a so-called "pre-political" realm (they are thus gathered as an "ecclesia" proper) as they do when the "state" makes its appearance as "the" overarching and all-encompassing form of community?
Lorca and Modernity
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My latest book is Apocryphal Lorca (2009), a study of Lorca's influence on poetry of the US. My next will be Lorca and Modernity, a study that attempts to answer the question of what it means for Spanish literature that Federico García Lorca is the major modern poet in this particular tradition. There are several problems I have to sort out.
A Poet, an Empress, and the Sublime
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One way to fight an addiction is to try to substitute a second, healthier activity for the baleful one.  Lately, during the evenings, to prevent myself from playing World of Warcraft, I have been translating Russian verse. 
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