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

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 contributi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Culture & Conflict , 19
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 182 p.)
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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