Philosophy of Climate Apocalypticism

<p>This book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis.</p><p>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?</p><p>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.</p>