Isak Winkel Holm

Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe

Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume argues for the relevance of Kierkegaard's employment of the prophetic noir, modelled after the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible, to understanding how to live in a time of climate change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780192862518
• ISBN-10: 0192862510
• Artikelnr.: 66142555

Autorenporträt

Isak Winkel Holm is Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Copenhagen. Author of Tanken i billedet. Søren Kierkegaards poetik ( Thinking in Images: The Poetics of Søren Kierkegaard, Gyldendal 1998), Stormløb mod grænsen: det politiske hos Franz Kafka (Assault on the Border: the Political in Franz Kafka, Gyldendal 2015), and Kafka's Stereoscopes: the Political Function of a Literary Style (Bloomsbury 2020). He has published scholarly articles on Rousseau, Schlegel, Kleist, Hegel, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Musil, Proust, Kundera, DeLillo, Sebald, McCarthy, and zombie movies, and has translated works by Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche into Danish.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: With Sorrow Before Him
* 1: Science Presupposes Mood: Thought and Mood According to
Kierkegaard
* 2: Not Just a Future Language: Prophetic Noir in the Hebrew Bible
* 3: This Moment is Life and Death: Prophetic Noir in Fear and
Trembling
* 4: A New Infallible Interpretive Law: The Journal Entry on the Great
Earthquake
* 5: He Does Not Prophesy: The Destruction of Jerusalem in 'Ultimatum'
* 6: Stirring Up Life from its Deepest Foundations: Horror and Patience
in the Edifying Discourses
* 7: Possibility's Course in Calamity: Noir Anxiety in The Concept of
Anxiety
* Conclusion: It Will Be a Frightful Night