Vorlesungsreihe: „Kairos and Crisis – Turning Points in the Baltic Sea Region”
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Gastpasswort: Kairos_21
Starting with the 'Lynn White thesis' of 1967, according to which the environmental devastation originated with the introduction and dissemination of the Christian concept of divine transcendence, the lecture offers an insight into the religious discourse of the ontological and eschatological world contempt in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. An analysis of chosen representative visual topoi of its Christian fabrication aims to point out the moment of alienation pre-formed over centuries by historical patterns of figurative thinking. These patterns, so the argument, are among the reasons behind the long-term subjugation and exploitation of nature, leading nowadays to climatic change and environmental collapse. In this way, the present environmental challenge lies not only in introducing necessary changes in the global economy, industrialization, and globalization policy or in an ecological revision of unsustainable human behavior. Moreover, it requires an overall comprehension of how images provide frameworks of thought on history, progress, and the fatal disposability of nature.