Kierkegaard’s Dark Ecology. The Quest for an Ethical Framework in the Face of Climate Catastrophe
Anthropogenic climate change calls for an ethical response and a new ethical framework fit for the new conditions of the Anthropocene. In this paper, I argue that Søren Kierkegaard provides some of the building blocks for such a framework. Kierkegaard advocates, what I, along with Timothy Morton, ca...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
Year: 2025, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 307-328 |
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| Summary: | Anthropogenic climate change calls for an ethical response and a new ethical framework fit for the new conditions of the Anthropocene. In this paper, I argue that Søren Kierkegaard provides some of the building blocks for such a framework. Kierkegaard advocates, what I, along with Timothy Morton, call a dark ecology, a concept I reconstruct in two steps: 1) by analyzing Kierkegaard’s anthropogenesis, I show how the individual can respond ethically across the abyss of deep time, and 2) I argue that the condition for this response is embedded in Kierkegaard’s concept of nature. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2025-0015 |
