The environmental apocalypse interdisciplinary reflections on the climate crisis / edited by Jakub Kowalewski.
| Other author | Kowalewski, Jakub (Lecturer in philosophy) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | On the apocalyptic theme in modern scientific discourse / Omar Rafael Regalado Fernandez -- The shapes of apocalyptic time : decolonising eco-eschatology / Jakub Kowalewski -- Queer ecologies and apocalyptic thinking / Elizabeth Pyne -- Slow catastrophe : a concept for the Anthropocene / Jonathon Catlin -- Apocalypticism in Islamic environmental thought : the Anthropocene as a theological concept / Marita Furehaug -- The disappointing apocalypse : climate collapse and visual art since 1960 / Andrew Patrizio -- Avoiding the apocalypse : the how-to guide as a method / Francesca Laura Cavallo -- Waiting for the end : narrating and grieving extinction / Sarah France -- The evening(s) of our day : Melville, McCarthy, and the Anthropocene's double apocalypse / Lindsay Atnip -- 'Guilty?'/'not guilty?' Kierkegaardian reflections on carbon ideologies / Simon Thornton -- Apocalyptic time and the ethics of human extinction / Stefan Skrimshire -- Eschatology and teleology in the environmental ethics of Hans Jonas / Robert G. Seymour -- The improper apocalypse : vitalism with and against a psychoanalytic approach to the end of the world / Timothy Secret -- Wiping away the tears of Esau : Adorno's reconciliation with nature / Agata Bielik-Robson -- Looking beyond the apocalypse : environmental crisis, colonial environmentalism and Eastern India's tribal communities / Vinita Damodaran. |
| Abstract | "This volume brings together scholars working in diverse traditions of the humanities in order to offer a comprehensive analysis of the environmental catastrophe as the modern-day apocalypse. Drawing on philosophy, theology, history, literature, art history, psychoanalysis, as well as queer and decolonial theories, the authors included in this book expound the meaning of the climate apocalypse, reveal its presence in our everyday experiences, and examine its impact on our intellectual, imaginative, and moral practices. Importantly, the chapters show that eco-apocalypticism can inform progressively transformative discourses about climate change. In so doing, they demonstrate the fruitfulness of understanding the environmental catastrophe from within an apocalyptic framework, carving a much-needed path between two unsatisfactory approaches to the climate disaster: firstly, the conservative impulse to preserve the status quo responsible for today's crisis, and secondly, the reckless acceptance of the destructive effects of climate change. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the contributions of both apocalypticism and the humanities to contemporary ecological debates"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Environmental apocalypse Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781032038216 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022022999 |
| ISBN | 9781000779875 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781003189190 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |