TY - BOOK AU - Connolly,William E. TI - Stormy Weather: Pagan Cosmologies, Christian Times, Climate Wreckage SN - 1531509215 AV - BD497 .C66 2024 PY - 2024/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Cosmology KW - Climatic changes N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -