Environmental Apocalypse - Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Climate Crisis

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jakub Kowalewski
• Assisted by: Jakub Kowalewski (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032038216
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3203821-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; NATURE / General, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, NATURE / Essays, NATURE / Ecology, Applied ecology, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social impact of environmental issues, Political science and theory, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmental policy and protocols