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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Connolly, William E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, [2024].
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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.