1st Edition
Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis A new perspective on life in the anthropocene
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
Chapter 1: Cultural Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics and Preunderstanding
Approaching Climate Fiction
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 4: The Conspiracy
The Conspiracy in Cultural History
Doomsday Atmospheres
The Arrival of the Super Computer
Crichton and The Conspiracy
The Suspicious Relation to the World
Chapter 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
Chapter 6: The Sphere
The Sphere in Cultural History
Bubbles
The Globe
Sloterdijk and the Imagination Form
The Anthropotechnical Relation to the World
Chapter 7: The Birth of a New Perspective
Beyond the Grid of the Imagination Forms
Two Functions of Climate Fiction
Bibliography
Biography
Gregers Andersen is a postdoctoral researcher in environmental humanities at the Department of English, Stockholm University. He has published articles in several international journals on how literature, films, cultural theory, and philosophy can shed light upon human and non-human conditions in the Anthropocene.
