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Stormy Weather : Pagan Cosmologies, Christian Times, Climate Wreckage.

By: New York : Fordham University Press, 2024Description: 259 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1531509215
  • 9781531509217
  • 1531509207
  • 9781531509200
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD497 .C66 2024
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Lived Cosmologies and Climate Wreckage -- 1. Hesiod, Ovid, and a Turbulent Cosmos -- First Coda: Jocasta, James Baldwin, and Tragic Possibility -- 2. Augustine and the First Conquest of Pagans -- Second Coda: Catherine Keller and Diverse Christianities -- 3. Todorov, the Second Conquest, and Aztec Cosmology -- Third Coda: Tocqueville and White Settler Society -- 4. Descartes, Kant, and Amazonian Perspectivism -- Fourth Coda: Nietzsche and the History of an Error -- 5. Amitav Ghosh, Michel Serres, and the Time of Climate Wreckage.
Summary: This counter-history of western thought explores how a Christian cosmology supported the conquest of paganism in Europe and the Americas, sowed seeds of climate wreckage, complemented capitalist ravages, and helped to conceal that wreckage. Connolly advances a counter-cosmology and political strategy indebted to pagan predecessors and recent minor philosophers in the west.
List(s) this item appears in: 2024 New Titles
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BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab BD497 .C66 2024 1 Available 50583020033217
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Lived Cosmologies and Climate Wreckage -- 1. Hesiod, Ovid, and a Turbulent Cosmos -- First Coda: Jocasta, James Baldwin, and Tragic Possibility -- 2. Augustine and the First Conquest of Pagans -- Second Coda: Catherine Keller and Diverse Christianities -- 3. Todorov, the Second Conquest, and Aztec Cosmology -- Third Coda: Tocqueville and White Settler Society -- 4. Descartes, Kant, and Amazonian Perspectivism -- Fourth Coda: Nietzsche and the History of an Error -- 5. Amitav Ghosh, Michel Serres, and the Time of Climate Wreckage.

This counter-history of western thought explores how a Christian cosmology supported the conquest of paganism in Europe and the Americas, sowed seeds of climate wreckage, complemented capitalist ravages, and helped to conceal that wreckage. Connolly advances a counter-cosmology and political strategy indebted to pagan predecessors and recent minor philosophers in the west.

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