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This book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis.
Drawing on a wide range of sources and theoretical traditions from ecological works and radical pamphlets, through political theology and continental philosophy to ancient and medieval apocalypses, the book sheds a comprehensive light on the concepts, processes, and experiences which circulate around the figure of the environmental end of the world. Importantly, this book argues that apocalypticism can provide a productive philosophical framework for addressing the climate catastrophe, enabling us to propose a distinctive answer to the fundamental question which haunts progressive ecological projects: how can we defend the world we find indefensible?
Appealing to students, academics, and researchers in philosophy, political theology, and environmental humanities, this book is a timely intervention which hopes to demonstrate that, when all else fails, it is the end of the world which may save the planet.
Contents
Acknowledgements. Introduction and initial hypotheses. Chapter 1: The answer is ideology!. Chapter 2: The conceptual orbit of apocalypticism. Chapter 3: Why being is on nobody's side: The politics and ontology of climate apocalypse. Chapter 4: The shapes of eco-apocalyptic time. Chapter 5: A requiem for a world built on sand: Landscapes and the ambivalence of ruins. Chapter 6: When the world ends, I will move to Paris: Anxiety, apathy, and activism. Chapter 7: Antinomianism and spectral laws. Index.
