A Philosophy of Climate Apocalypticism: In and Against the World (Routledge Environmental Humanities) - Softcover

Kowalewski, Jakub

Softcover

ISBN 10: 103239126X ISBN 13: 9781032391267

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Jakub Kowalewski is Research Fellow at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London. He is also the editor of The Environmental Apocalypse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Climate Crisis (Routledge 2023).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103239126X
• ISBN 13: 9781032391267
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174