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1 online resource |
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Introduction: with sorrow before him -- Science presupposes mood: thought and mood according to Kierkegaard -- Not just a future language: prophetic noir in the Hebrew Bible -- This moment is life and death: prophetic noir in Fear and Trembling -- A new infallible interpretative law: the journal entry on the Great Earthquake -- He does not prophesy: the destruction of Jerusalem in 'Ultimatum' -- Stirring up life from its deepest foudnations: horror and patience in the edifying discourses -- Possibility's course in calamity: noir anxiety in The Concept of Anxiety -- Conclusion: it will be a frightful night |
| Summary |
"Søren 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. The book’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. On the one hand, from the vantage point of the contemporary world threatened by rapidly evolving climate catastrophes, Kierkegaard’s analysis of human existence emerges in a different light. 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 future disaster. On the other hand, a thorough analysis of the prophetic noir in Kierkegaard offers an existential perspective to living in a world threatened by environmental devastation"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on January 18, 2024) |
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 fast |
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Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013769
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Climatic changes -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Climatic changes -- Philosophy
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Human ecology -- Philosophy
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Climatic changes -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192676740 |
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0192676741 |
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9780191953569 |
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0191953563 |
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9780192676733 |
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0192676733 |
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