{"product_id":"stormy-weather-pagan-cosmologies-christian-times-climate-wreckage-paperback-softback-9781531509217","title":"Stormy Weather; Pagan Cosmologies, Christian Times, Climate Wreckage (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531509217","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStormy Weather\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePagan Cosmologies, Christian Times, Climate Wreckage\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam E. Connolly (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531509217\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposed as a counter-history of western philosophical and political thought, \u003ci\u003eStormy Weather\u003c\/i\u003e explores the role western cosmologies have played in the conquests of paganism in Europe and the Americas, the production of climate wreckage, and the concealment of that wreckage from western humanists and earth scientists until late in the day. A lived cosmology, Connolly says, contains embedded understandings about the beginnings of the earth and the way time unfolds. The text engages the major western cosmologies of Augustine, Descartes, Kant, Tocqueville, together with pagan and minor western orientations that posed challenges to them or could have. Hesiod, Ovid, William Apess, Amazonian and Aztec cosmologies, Catherine Keller's minor Christianity, James Baldwin, and Michel Serres instigate key responses, often challenging binary logics and the subject\/object dichotomy with a world of multiple human and nonhuman subjectivities. \u003cbr\u003e Connolly pursues a conception of time as a multiplicity of intersecting temporalities to come to terms with the vicissitudes of climate destruction and the grandeur of an earth neither highly susceptible to mastery nor designed to harmonize smoothly with humans. The book revisits the \"improbable necessity\" of a politics of swarming to respond to the ongoing wreckage and potential fascist responses to vast infusions of climate refugees from the south into temperate-zone capitalist states. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStormy Weather\u003c\/i\u003e draws on the work of earth scientists, indigenous thinkers, naturalists, humanists, and students of nonwestern cosmologies. Ultimately, Connolly contends that critical intellectuals today must not remain enclosed in disciplinary silos, or even in \"the humanities\" as currently defined, to do justice to our moment of climate wreckage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Lived Cosmologies and Climate Wreckage   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eHesiod, Ovid, and a Turbulent Cosmos   18\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFirst Coda\u003c\/b\u003e: Jocasta, James Baldwin, and Tragic Possibility   45\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eAugustine and the First Conquest of Pagans   58\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSecond Coda\u003c\/b\u003e: Catherine Keller and Diverse Christianities   89\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eTodorov, the Second Conquest, and Aztec Cosmology   99\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThird Coda\u003c\/b\u003e: Tocqueville and White Settler Society   124\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eDescartes, Kant, and Amazonian Perspectivism   135\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFourth Coda\u003c\/b\u003e: Nietzsche and the History of an Error   165\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003eAmitav Ghosh, Michel Serres, and the Time of Climate Wreckage   178\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  211\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  215\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  241\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  251\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681234841880,"sku":"9781531509217","price":21.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/stormy-weather-pagan-cosmologies-christian-times-climate-wreckage-paperback-softback-9781531509217","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}