Contents

pp 5-6

List of Illustrations

pp 6-8

Acknowledgments

pp 9-10

Introduction

pp 11-22

1 - Off the Human Track : Montaigne, Deleuze, and the Materialization of Philosophy

pp 23-48

Part 1 - Dark(Ish) Ecologies

pp 49-50

2 - Du Bartas Responding to Morton’s Milton: A Bodily Route to the Ecological Thought

pp 51-72

3 - ‘When is a Meadow not a Meadow?’: Dark Ecology and Fields of Conflict in French Renaissance Poetry

pp 73-98

4 - Equipment for Living with Hyperobjects: Proverbs in Ronsard's Franciade

pp 99-110

5 - Is Ecology Absurd? Diogenes and the End of Civilization

pp 111-134

Part 2 - Nature's Cultures

pp 135-136

6 - Between Nature and Culture: The Integrated Ecology of Renaissance Climate Theories

pp 137-160

7 - Almost Encountering Ronsard's Rose

pp 161-180

8 - Renascent Nature in the Ruins: Joachim du Bellay's Antiquitez de Rome

pp 181-202

Part 3 - Groundings

pp 203-204

9 - An Inconvenient Bodin: Latour and the Treasure Seekers

pp 205-222

10 - Reading Olivier de Serres Circa 1600: Between Economy and Ecology

pp 223-262

11 - Montaigne's Plants in Movement

pp 263-286

Epilogue

pp 287-296

Index

pp 297-309