Ursula K. Heise
Ursula K. Heise
Ursula K. Heise, born in 1960, is professor of English and Director of the Program for Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University.
Ursula K. Heise, born in 1960, is professor of English and Director of the Program for Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University.
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Year of Publication: 2010
Ursula K. HeiseYear of Publication: 2010
After Nature
The extinction of species from the perspective of cultural science.
In this essay, Ursula K. Heise makes the case that species extinction presents not just scientific and political challenges, but also cultural ones. We are confronted today with a decline in biodiversity that is unprecedented in both scale and rapidity. In art, cinema and literature, extinct or dying...
In this essay, Ursula K. Heise makes the case that species extinction presents not just scientific and political challenges, but also cultural ones. We are confronted today with a decline in biodiversity that is unprecedented in both scale and rapidity. In art, cinema and literature, extinct or dying...