Research Catalog

Title

The environmental apocalypse : interdisciplinary reflections on the climate crisis / edited by Jakub Kowalewski.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

Kowalewski, Jakub (Lecturer in philosophy)

Description

xvii, 262 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Routledge Environmental Humanities

Uniform Title

Routledge environmental humanities.

Subject

• Environmental sciences > Philosophy
• Environmental ethics
• Eschatology
• Environmental degradation in art
• Environmental degradation in literature
• Environmental sciences

Genre/Form

• Informational works.
• Informational works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 23-528

ISBN

• 9781032038216
• 1032038217
• 9781032038063
• 1032038063

LCCN

2022022998

OCLC

1346621785

Title

The environmental apocalypse : interdisciplinary reflections on the climate crisis / edited by Jakub Kowalewski.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge Environmental Humanities

Routledge environmental humanities.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kowalewski, Jakub (Lecturer in philosophy), editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Environmental apocalypse Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781003189190 (DLC) 2022022999

Research Call Number

JFE 23-528