Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe
Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 8 December 2022
Normal price:
Publisher's listprice:
GBP 76.00
GBP 76.00
Your price:
33 037 (31 464 HUF + 5% VAT )
discount is: 10% (approx 3 671 HUF off)
The discount is only available for 'Alert of Favourite Topics' newsletter recipients.
Click here to subscribe.
Click here to subscribe.
Availability:
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Can't you provide more accurate information?
Not in stock at Prospero.
Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780192862518 |
ISBN10: | 01928625111 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 256 pages |
Size: | 24x163x180 mm |
Weight: | 1 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 1 black-and-white illustration |
569 |
Category:
Short description:
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.
Long description:
S?ren Kierkegaard's work is teeming with images of earthquakes, floods, storms, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, burned down cities, and apocalyptic events that 'let the heavens fall and the stars change their places in the overturning of everything'. These disaster images are not just rhetorical packaging of the philosophical and theological content of his works. Rather, disasters play an important but largely understudied role in Kierkegaard's analysis of human existence. Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe focuses on prophetic noir in Kierkegaard's work: the sombre mood that is evoked when the shadow of future disaster falls upon the present. Isak Winkel Holm's core contention is that the prophetic noir in Kierkegaard, modelled after the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible, contributes to making his works urgently relevant today. From the vantage point of the contemporary world threatened by rapidly evolving climate catastrophes, Kierkegaard's analysis of human existence emerges in a more sombre light, dimmed by the future disaster: to exist, in the emphatic sense Kierkegaard gave to that word, is to live a meaningful human life even if things are darkened by the coming calamity. Thus, a thorough analysis of the prophetic noir in Kierkegaard offers an existential perspective on living in a world threatened by environmental devastation.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: With Sorrow Before Him
Science Presupposes Mood: Thought and Mood According to Kierkegaard
Not Just a Future Language: Prophetic Noir in the Hebrew Bible
This Moment is Life and Death: Prophetic Noir in Fear and Trembling
A New Infallible Interpretive Law: The Journal Entry on the Great Earthquake
He Does Not Prophesy: The Destruction of Jerusalem in 'Ultimatum'
Stirring Up Life from its Deepest Foundations: Horror and Patience in the Edifying Discourses
Possibility's Course in Calamity: Noir Anxiety in The Concept of Anxiety
Conclusion: It Will Be a Frightful Night
Science Presupposes Mood: Thought and Mood According to Kierkegaard
Not Just a Future Language: Prophetic Noir in the Hebrew Bible
This Moment is Life and Death: Prophetic Noir in Fear and Trembling
A New Infallible Interpretive Law: The Journal Entry on the Great Earthquake
He Does Not Prophesy: The Destruction of Jerusalem in 'Ultimatum'
Stirring Up Life from its Deepest Foundations: Horror and Patience in the Edifying Discourses
Possibility's Course in Calamity: Noir Anxiety in The Concept of Anxiety
Conclusion: It Will Be a Frightful Night