The Three Sustainabilities
Energy, Economy, Time
$56.05
- Paperback
328 pages
- Release Date
21 November 2021
Summary
Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future
Is sustainability a hopelessly vague word, with meager purpose aside from a feel-good appeal to the consumer? In The Three Sustainabilities, Allan Stoekl seeks to (re)valorize the word, for a simple reason: it is useful. Sustainability designates objects in time, their birth or genesis, their consistency, their survival, their demise. And it rais…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781517908188 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1517908183 |
| Author: | Allan Stoekl |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 21 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 140mm x 216mm |
You Can Find This Book In
Critics Review
“Allan Stoekl shines a bright light on the paradoxes of sustainability. At its best a hazy moral good and at its worst a pretext for smuggling toxic relations into an astroturfed future, sustainability discourse is a symptom of the global North’s increasingly irrational clinging to the promises of modern progress. What is so important about Stoekl’s book is its subtle and imaginative approach to rethinking sustainability and its discontents from the epistemic grounds up.”–Dominic Boyer, Rice University
“Written with force and conviction, The Three Sustainabilities is an impressive volume that pleads passionately and imaginatively for a future of generosity and gift giving that will hopefully have the force to inspire readers in their everyday lives.” –H-Net Reviews
“To this reader, the most useful aspect of the text is its elaboration of the political conscious subtending our most fascinating popular narratives of life after the inevitable global disaster.”–Martin A. Hipsky, Studies in 20th 21st Century Literature
Allan Stoekl
Allan Stoekl is professor emeritus of French and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University. His books include Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability (Minnesota, 2007) among others.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.