The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change

Published by De Gruyter 2021

The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change

Edited by: Jan Alber

Volume 19 in the series Culture & Conflict

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730203

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Jan Alber, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change between the Disciplines Jan Alber, Steffen Jöris and Wolfgang Römer Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Scenarios of Human-Induced Climate and Environmental Changes at Different Spatial and Temporal Scales Wolfgang Römer Publicly Available Download PDF	11
The Apocalyptic Imagination and Climate Change Gerbern S. Oegema Publicly Available Download PDF	49
Narrative and the Texture of Catastrophe Marco Caracciolo Publicly Available Download PDF	63
Hindu Apocalyptic Notions, Cultural Discourses, and Climate Change Diana Dimitrova Publicly Available Download PDF	81
The Desert Wasteland and Climate Change in Mad Max: Fury Road Judith Eckenhoff Publicly Available Download PDF	93
Drawing (on) the Future: Narration, Animation, and the Partially Human Jon Hegglund Publicly Available Download PDF	109
Environmental Sciences, Apocalyptic Thought, and the Proxy of God Axel Siegemund Publicly Available Download PDF	125
Four Cosmopolitical Ideas for an Unworlded World Carlos A. Segovia Publicly Available Download PDF	137
Climate Change, the Apocalypse, and Other Ideologies in The Day after Tomorrow Jan Alber and Zoë Takvorian Publicly Available Download PDF	157
Biographical Information Publicly Available Download PDF	175
Subject Index Publicly Available Download PDF	177
Name Index Publicly Available Download PDF	181

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Literary and cultural studies, Climatology, Theology
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 182
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Coloured Illustrations: 5
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Climate change; apocalypse; cultural discourses; narrative

eBook

Published: September 7, 2021
ISBN: 9783110730203

Hardcover

Published: September 7, 2021
ISBN: 9783110734850

Paperback

Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111269764