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Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe - Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet (Hardcover)
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Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe - Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet (Hardcover)
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Soren 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.
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