Cube-Shaped Planet

Authors

  • Knox Peden

Keywords:

Anthropocene, Paul Bowles, Immanuel Kant, space, time, aesthetics

Abstract

References to the Anthropocene and the ontological shifts it has putatively wrought abound in humanities scholarship today. This essay looks at several works of fiction and criticism – chiefly Paul Bowles’s 1949 novel, The Sheltering Sky – in order to advance a series of claims about the difficulty of representing the relationship between nature as a domain of causality beholden to natural laws and another, nominally human or rational domain comprising actions, intentions, and variously justifiable or unjustifiable reasons. It is mainly interested in exploring the desires that motivate efforts to represent this relationship in contrastive ways and insists in the end on the central place of representation in rendering such dilemmas intelligible and their presuppositions contestable.

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Published

2017-01-18

How to Cite

Peden, K. (2017). Cube-Shaped Planet. Filozofski Vestnik, 37(2). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/4867

Issue

Vol. 37 No. 2 (2016): Reason + Enjoyment

Section

Reason + Enjoyment

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