Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 6
4. Acknowledgments 9
5. Introduction 11
6. 1. Off the Human Track : Montaigne, Deleuze, and the Materialization of Philosophy 23
7. Part 1. Dark(Ish) Ecologies
8. 2. Du Bartas Responding to Morton’s Milton : A Bodily Route to the Ecological Thought 51
9. 3. ‘When is a meadow not a meadow?’ : Dark Ecology and Fields of Conflict in French Renaissance Poetry 73
10. 4. Equipment for Living with Hyperobjects : Proverbs in Ronsard’s Franciade 99
11. 5. Is Ecology Absurd? Diogenes and the End of Civilization 111
12. Part 2. Nature’s Cultures
13. 6. Between Nature and Culture : The Integrated Ecology of Renaissance Climate Theories 137
14. 7. Almost Encountering Ronsard’s Rose 161
15. 8. Renascent Nature in the Ruins: Joachim du Bellay’s Antiquitez de Rome 181
16. Part 3. Groundings
17. 9. An Inconvenient Bodin: Latour and the Treasure Seekers 205
18. 10. Reading Olivier de Serres circa 1600: Between Economy and Ecology 223
19. 11. Montaigne’s Plants in Movement 263
20. Epilogue 287
21. Index 297