Stormy weather : pagan cosmologies, Christian times, 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...
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
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Table of 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.