Environmental Apocalypse

<p>This volume brings together scholars working in diverse traditions of the humanities in order to offer a comprehensive analysis of the environmental catastrophe as the modern-day apocalypse. Drawing on philosophy theology history literature art history psychoanalysis as well as queer and decolonial theories the authors included in this book expound the meaning of the climate apocalypse reveal its presence in our everyday experiences and examine its impact on our intellectual imaginative and moral practices.</p><p>Importantly the chapters show that eco-apocalypticism can inform progressively transformative discourses about climate change. In so doing they demonstrate the fruitfulness of understanding the environmental catastrophe from within an apocalyptic framework carving a much-needed path between two unsatisfactory approaches to the climate disaster: first the conservative impulse to preserve the status quo responsible for today’s crisis and second the reckless acceptance of the destructive effects of climate change.</p><p>This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the contributions of both apocalypticism and the humanities to contemporary ecological debates.</p>