The Environmental Apocalypse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Climate Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781032038216 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 296 str.

Kowalewski, Jakub

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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