Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis: A New Perspective on Life in the Anthropocene

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the birth of a new type of fiction
	A brief history of global warming
	What is climate fiction?
	The context of this book
	Presentation of content
	Notes
1 Cultural hermeneutics
	Hermeneutics and preunderstanding
	Approaching climate fiction
	Notes
2 The social collapse
	From the broken social contract to climate war
	Post-apocalyptic worlds
	The uncanny as a mood
	The uncanny relation to the world
	Notes
3 The judgment
	The judgment in cultural history
	The judgment in climate fiction
	Serres, Latour and the imagination form
	Another uncanny relation to the world
	The judgment as a denial of responsibility
	Notes
4 The conspiracy
	The conspiracy in cultural history
	Doomsday atmospheres
	The arrival of the supercomputer
	Crichton and the conspiracy
	The suspicious relation to the world
	Notes
5 The loss of wilderness
	The loss of wilderness in cultural history
	The destructiveness of humanity
	Another suicidal ice-lover
	Heidegger and the imagination form
	The loving relation to the world
	Notes
6 The sphere
	The sphere in cultural history
	Bubbles
	The globe
	Sloterdijk and the imagination form
	The anthropotechnical relation to the world
	Notes
7 The birth of a new perspective
	Beyond the grid of the imagination forms
	Two functions of climate fiction
	Notes
Bibliography
Index