A Polemical Companion to Ethics of Life
Contemporary Iberian Debates
Ed. Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz
The present "debate" is meant to be read in conjunction with Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates, edited by Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. (Available in hardcover, paperback and ebook)
Prelude
- Iberian Studies for a Change: Chasing Boundaries of Life
Katarzyna Beilin - Telling Worldly Stories in a More-than-Human World (or How to Overcome Humanist Orthodoxies in Iberian Cultural Criticism)
Daniel Ares López - Animals in Contemporary Spanish Newspapers
John Beusterien - Cultivating the Square: Trash, Recycling, and the Cultural Ecology of Post-Crisis Madrid
Matthew I. Feinberg and Susan Larson - Happiness
Eugenia Afinoguénova - Spanish Cultural and Literary Criticism in the Age of the Anthropocene
Luis I. Prádanos - A Note on the Culture of Biotechnology in Contemporary Spain
Sainath Suryanarayanan and Katarzyna Beilin - Accounting for Violence, Counting the Dead: The Civil War and Spain's Political Present
Sebastiaan Faber - Nunca Máis: Ecological Collectivism and the Prestige Disaster
John H. Trevathan
Polemics
- Debating Ourselves; Towards the Garden Cities
Katarzyna Beilin - Exploring the Political Ecology of Iberian Studies
Luis I. Prádanos - An Exemplary Iberian Peninsula for an Ethics of Life
John Beusterien - The Ecological Imperative of Urban Cultural Studies
Matthew I. Feinberg and Susan Larson - The Community to Come: Reconsidering Democracy by Way of the Ethics of Life
William Viestenz - Back to Alienation
Eugenia Afinoguénova - Material Semiotics, Political Ecologies, Ethics of Life and the Renewed Potential of the Humanities to Describe and Shape the World in the Anthropocene
Daniel Ares López - Literature as Ecological Thought: Mind the Metaphor
Juan F. Egea - Opening Black Boxes in Iberian Debates on Life
John H. Trevathan - Dam Novels: Drowned Memory and Disposable Communities
Martín López-Vega - Matters of Concern: Survival Strategies
Sebastiaan Faber - Assisted Suicide and Academic Suicide
Paul Begin - Keeping the Humanities Alive by Transforming It: A Co-op Conclusion
Daniel Ares López, Katarzyna Beilin, John Beusterien, Luis I. Prádanos, Sainath Suryanaryanan and William Viestenz