The Environmental Apocalypse

Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Climate Crisis
Herausgeber: Kowalewski, Jakub

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together scholars working across the humanities to offer a comprehensive analysis of the environmental catastrophe as the modern-day apocalypse. An invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the contributions of both apocalypticism and the humanities to contemporary ecological debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781032038216
• ISBN-10: 1032038217
• Artikelnr.: 64682994

Autorenporträt

Jakub Kowalewski is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Religions and Liberal Arts at the University of Winchester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1 Conceptualising the Environmental Apocalypse 1. On the Apocalyptic
Theme in Modern Scientific Discourse 2. The Shapes of Apocalyptic Time:
Decolonising Eco-Eschatology 3. Queer Ecologies and Apocalyptic Thinking 4.
Slow Catastrophe: A Concept for the Anthropocene 5. Apocalypticism in
Islamic Environmental Thought: The Anthropocene as a Theological Concept
PART 2 Representing the Environmental Apocalypse 6. The Disappointing
Apocalypse: Climate Collapse and Visual Art since 1960 7. Avoiding the
Apocalypse: The How-To Guide as a Method 8. Waiting for the End: Narrating
and Grieving Extinction 9. 'The Evening(s) of Our Day': Melville, McCarthy,
and the Anthropocene's Double Apocalypse PART 3 The Ethics of the
Environmental Apocalypse 10. "Guilty?"/"Not Guilty?": Kierkegaardian
Reflections on Carbon Ideologies 11. Apocalyptic Time and the Ethics of
Human Extinction 12. Eschatology and Teleology in the Environmental Ethics
of Hans Jonas PART 4 Beyond the Environmental Apocalypse 13. The Improper
Apocalypse: Vitalism with and against a Psychoanalytic Approach to the End
of the World 14. Wiping Away the Tears of Esau: Adorno's Reconciliation
with Nature 15. Looking beyond the Apocalypse: Environmental Crisis,
Colonial Environmentalism and Eastern India's Tribal Communities