Kærligheden til det forsvindende

Om is, opvarmning og selvkritik i to klimaromaner

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  • Gregers Andersen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v42i1.11716

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Climate-Change, Love of Nature, Eco-Philosophy, Cultural Critique, Martin Heidegger

Abstract

Love for the Disappearing: On Ice, Warming and Self-criticism in two Climate-Change Novels

This article focuses on the configuration of the love of ice in two novels from the emergent field of climate-change fiction: The Ice Lovers (2009) by the Canadian author Jean McNeil, and Eis Tau (2011) by the Austrian author Ilija Trojanow. Both these works end with the suicide of the main character; a commonality which serves as the point of departure for this article. Additionally, the main characters’ love of ice is explored as a means of being-in-the-world, as opposed to the being-in-the-world of a humanity that is generally depicted as treating nature without love, i.e., unsustainably. In this regard the novels are also read as a site of self-criticism (or anthropocritique). In its pursuit of these two contrasting forms of being-in-the-world, the article draws heavily on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. The ecological aspects of Heidegger’s philosophy have been firmly criticized by eco-critics and philosophers alike. However, as this article makes clear, Heidegger’s line of thought can still be detected in current writing on climate change.

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Gregers Andersen

Gregers Andersen er ph.d.-stipendiat i litteraturvidenskab ved Institut for Kunst og kulturvidenskab ved Københavns Universitet. Hans afhandling har arbejdstitlen Forestillede klimaer. Den globale opvarmning i litteraturen og vil komme til at handle om nogle gennemgående forestillingsformer i fiktionens og filosofiens portrættering af den globale opvarmning.

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2012-01-01

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Andersen, G. (2012). Kærligheden til det forsvindende: Om is, opvarmning og selvkritik i to klimaromaner. Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 42(1), 17–26. https://doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v42i1.11716

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