EAN: 9783319642413

SCALE IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE GEBUNDEN

This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale  with essays
ranging in subject matter from literature to film  architecture  the plastic arts  philosophy 
and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of issues provoked by
the sudden and pressing shifts in scale brought on by globalization and the era of the
Anthropocene  including: the difficulties of defining the concept of scale  the challenges that
shifts in scale pose to knowledge formation  the role of scale in mediating individual
subjectivity and agency  the barriers to understanding objects existing in scalar realms
different from our own  the role of scale in mediating the relationship between humans and the
environment  and the nature of power  authority  and democracy at different social scales.

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