Book series: “Culture – Environment – Society. Humanities and beyond”

Editors: Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, Paweł Piszczatowski

Publishing House: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag (Imprint of BRILL Deutschland)

The series will primarily publish monographs and anthologies in English, German and occasionally also in Spanish. These publications will document the research results of the project “Non-Anthropocentric Cultural Subjectivity” and enable them to be linked to international intellectual discourses, including, for example, the conference volumes of the symposium series “Discourses of the (Post) Anthropocene”, which is organized in cooperation with the University of California Los Angeles and the University of Freiburg. The concept of posthumanism, in which this project is grounded, poses questions that transcend the boundaries of traditional disciplines and requires an expanded redefinition of the idea of a postanthropocentric subjectivity in the philosophical, theological, legal, medical, psychological and anthropological sense, especially in view of the impending environmental and climate catastrophe. Significant focal points are the concepts of New Materialism, environmental humanities, eco-criticism and eco-poetics, as well as post-anthropocentric and post-colonial thought models and practices.

Furthermore, the series should be an open publication platform that creates space for high-quality publications from the above-mentioned research fields, as well as for book projects of an interdisciplinary and comparative nature. Diachronically oriented studies that thematize the biocentric thinking of the premodern structures of thought and build bridges between postcolonial critical approaches and the world views of indigenous cultures from non-western civilizations are also an important aspect with which the series opens.