Thought’s Wilderness

Thought's Wilderness argues that the concept of nature remains essential for understanding both our politics and environment, despite recent critiques from ecocriticism. The book explores how romantic poets and philosophers, such as Wordsworth and Shelley, engaged with the fleeting and ungraspable aspects of nature, seeing them as a response to the dominance of capitalism. Ellermann examines how these thinkers sought to develop a poetics of wilderness that acknowledged nature’s vulnerability and mobility, offering insights into resisting the destructive effects of modern capitalism on the natural world.