{"product_id":"stormy-weather-pagan-cosmologies-christian-times-climate-wreckage-paperback","title":"Stormy Weather: Pagan Cosmologies, Christian Times, Climate Wreckage - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam E. Connolly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConnolly 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStormy Weather\u003c\/i\u003e maps the connections between the civilizational project and its spectacular failure for life on earth. Connolly examines the cosmological origins of this fateful existential blockage in some key figures in our cultural imaginary as well as the cosmological traditions they have erased or marginalized. The confrontation of the Western lived metaphysics of time with pre-Christian and extra-Western cosmologies points to alternatives that might allow us to live the future differently.\"--\u003cb\u003eEduardo Viveiros de Castro\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eCannibal Metaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConnolly 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam E. Connolly\u003c\/b\u003e is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam E. Connolly\u003c\/b\u003e is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins, where he teaches political theory. His books include \u003ci\u003eClimate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke, 2020), \u003ci\u003eAspirational Fascism \u003c\/i\u003e(Minnesota, 2017), \u003ci\u003e Facing the Planetary\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke, 2017), \u003ci\u003eCapitalism and Christianity, American Style\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke, 2008); \u003ci\u003eWhy I Am Not a Secularist\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 1999), \u003ci\u003eThe Ethos of Pluralization\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 1995), and \u003ci\u003eThe Terms of Political Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton, 1983, 3rd ed., 1993). In a poll of American political theorists published in 2010, he was named the fourth most influential political theorist in America over the last twenty years, after Rawls, Habermas, and Foucault\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45550025244774,"sku":"9781531509217","price":65.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/fvWuj9XedN9781531509217.webp?v=1777099868","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/stormy-weather-pagan-cosmologies-christian-times-climate-wreckage-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}