What Is Extinction? – A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals Schuster

Name: What Is Extinction? – A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals Schuster
Brand: Fordham University Press

Fordham University Press

What Is Extinction?A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals\nAuthor(s): Joshua Schuster\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531501648, 978-1531501648\nSynopsis\nWINNER, 25th ANNUAL SUSANNE M. GLASSCOCK BOOK PRIZE\n Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? 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.\n 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. Understanding these extinction events also involves examining what happe.