The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change / / ed. by Jan Alber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Alber, Jan,; Caracciolo, Marco,; Dimitrova, Diana,; Eckenhoff, Judith,; Hegglund, Jon,; Jöris, Steffen,; Oegema, Gerbern S.,; Römer, Wolfgang,; Segovia, Carlos A.,; Siegemund, Axel,; Takvorian, Zoë,
• HerausgeberIn: Alber, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Culture & Conflict , 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 182 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change between the Disciplines -- Scenarios of Human-Induced Climate and Environmental Changes at Different Spatial and Temporal Scales -- The Apocalyptic Imagination and Climate Change -- Narrative and the Texture of Catastrophe -- Hindu Apocalyptic Notions, Cultural Discourses, and Climate Change -- The Desert Wasteland and Climate Change in Mad Max: Fury Road -- Drawing (on) the Future: Narration, Animation, and the Partially Human -- Environmental Sciences, Apocalyptic Thought, and the Proxy of God -- Four Cosmopolitical Ideas for an Unworlded World -- Climate Change, the Apocalypse, and Other Ideologies in The Day after Tomorrow -- Biographical Information -- Subject Index -- Name Index