Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe - Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Zusammenfassung

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

• Autoren: Isak Holm, Isak Winkel Holm, Isak Winkel (University of Copenhagen) Holm
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 08.12.2022
• EAN: 9780192862518
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286251-8
• Seiten: 256
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Climate Change, RELIGION / Ethics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Religious ethics, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought