Disenchanting the Senses: Sulfuric Discourse and the World System

Author:   Andrew Kettler (University of South Carolina)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009446945


Pages:   84
Publication Date:   08 January 2026
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Disenchanting the Senses: Sulfuric Discourse and the World System


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Specifically standing between humanity and natural perceptions of the environment in the contemporary age of ecological decay are disenchanted meanings of sulfur and evil that changed to support the base of capitalism during the Early Modern Era. The blinding system of linguistic and material networks that capital constructs to deny humans the ability to sense environmental threat can be understood most notably through a history of ideas related to supposedly sulfuric demons and the discursive archaeology surrounding many toxic sulfuric compounds ardently linked with the Anthropocene. Thinking of cause and effect in networks of objects and humans, as well as the structures of modernity and capitalism, this Element reasserts a philosophy of disenchantment into the history of the environment. At the core of modernity, capitalist discourses greenwashed experiences of the body related to evils of environmental threat to protect the means of production from considerable critique during the Industrial Revolution.

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Author:   Andrew Kettler (University of South Carolina)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.135kg
ISBN:  

9781009446945


ISBN 10:   1009446940
Pages:   84
Publication Date:   08 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Sulfur, sensation, and modernity; 2. Sensing the devil in the early modern era; 3. Sulfur, othering, and early modern empires; 4. The devil's demise; 5. Brimstone frontiers; 6. Sulfur shifted, sulfur contained; References.

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