The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change

Jan Alber

ISBN 10: 3111269760 / ISBN 13: 9783111269764

Editore: De Gruyter, Mercury Learning And Information, 2023

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Climate change and the apocalypse are frequently associated in the popular imagination of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together climatologists, theologians, historians, literary scholars, and philosophers to address and critically assess this association. The contributing authors are concerned, among other things, with the relation between cultural and scientific discourses on climate change; the role of apocalyptic images and narratives in representing environmental issues; and the tension between reality and fiction in apocalyptic representations of catastrophes. By focusing on how figures in fictional texts interact with their environment and deal with the consequences of climate change, this volume foregrounds the broader social and cultural function of apocalyptic narratives of climate change. By evoking a sense of collective human destiny in the face of the ultimate catastrophe, apocalyptic narratives have both cautionary and inspirational functions. Determining the extent to which such narratives square with scientific knowledge of climate change is one of the main aims of this book.

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• Titolo: The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change
• Editore: De Gruyter, Mercury Learning And Information
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3111269760
• ISBN 13: 9783111269764
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

Climate change and the apocalypse are frequently associated in the popular imagination of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together climatologists, theologians, historians, literary scholars, and philosophers to address and critically assess this association. The contributing authors are concerned, among other things, with the relation between cultural and scientific discourses on climate change; the role of apocalyptic images and narratives in representing environmental issues; and the tension between reality and fiction in apocalyptic representations of catastrophes. By focusing on how figures in fictional texts interact with their environment and deal with the consequences of climate change, this volume foregrounds the broader social and cultural function of apocalyptic narratives of climate change. By evoking a sense of collective human destiny in the face of the ultimate catastrophe, apocalyptic narratives have both cautionary and inspirational functions. Determining the extent to which such narratives square with scientific knowledge of climate change is one of the main aims of this book.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jan Alber, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.