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Few concepts are more anthropocentric than the environment. Although the term is usually invoked to describe what is other than the human being, it places the human at the center of the universe by defining nature as the world surrounding him. This course will examine several literary and philosophical texts from Novalis to Celan that approach nature as a sphere alien to thought, which can never be known except through the rhetorical device of prosopopoeia, which gives face to what is inhuman. Readings to include works by Novalis, Schlegel, Tieck, Stifter, Rilke, and Celan.