Pub Date : 2020-03-24DOI: 10.5117/9789462985971_CH03
J. Oliver
In poetic responses to the French civil wars, the wounded political body of France is aligned with the ravaged body of the physical landscape in an array of arresting ecological images. By tracing a web of profoundly imbricated commonplaces and analogies concerning fields, bodies, and entrails in particular, this chapter investigates the ways in which the verse of Pierre de Ronsard and Agrippa d’Aubigné both rehearses and decries the unnatural twists and turns of that ‘intestine’ conflict. Both poets revive ancient expressions of ecological anxiety that disrupt what Timothy Morton has termed ‘agrilogistic thought’; but I argue that in their distinctive and sometimes challenging styles, their verse presents (and through syntactic violence, uncannily performs) a still more radical vision of human enmeshment in nature.
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By zooming in on the diverse sources of Montaigne’s naturalism, from Aristotelian notions of vegetal psyche to Epicurean atomism and everyday observation, the essay examines the figures of plants in Michel de Montaigne’s Essays. It reveals the remarkable animation that characterizes Montaigne’s plants and argues that the essayist viewed not only animals (as has already been argued) but also plants are analogous to human beings and as forming the basis for moral judgments.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-24DOI: 10.5117/9789462985971_ch10
T. Conley
Formerly belonging to the literary canon of the French Renaissance, and often associated with the ideology of a return to the country—even to Maréchal Pétain’s Travail et Patrie—Olivier de Serres’s Théâtre d’agriculture et mesnage des champs (1600) remains a keystone in the history of agronomy. Threading the wisdom of ancient authors through his own experience, and staunchly Protestant in vision, Serres sets an agenda for the country gentleman and farmer. At once art and science, it deploys a limpid and vigorous style to argue for economy and productive management of the earth. This essay contends that today, despite its legacy, the work offers a vision and a savoury mode of writing vital to what we can make of ecology in the early modern age.
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{"title":"Equipment for Living with Hyperobjects:","authors":"Kat Addis","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10kmcfq.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10kmcfq.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":180042,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Écologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128871029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Responding to long-standing criticisms that theoretical readings of early modern literary texts are anachronistic, Melehy argues that past and present phenomena may be understood alongside one another, while still respecting both of them. He brings together Gilles Deleuze and Michel de Montaigne through their shared interest in Lucretius. Melehy demonstrates a Lucretian-inflected materialism in Montaigne’s Essais that implicitly criticizes Platonic conceptions of the primacy of thought over matter, and concomitant human claims to dominate the physical and natural world. Melehy signals intersections between Montaigne’s dissident philosophy and Deleuze’s materialist re-conception of the history of philosophy in order to point out ways that the essayist’s work speaks to questions that are also pertinent to present-day meditations on the environment.
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