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Braams, Maarten (2024)

Melting Words: Literature In An Age Of Climate Change

Master thesis | Philosophy (MA) (60 EC)

With the awareness of climate change our experience of literature has fundamentally changed. Using the heideggarian notions of world and earth, as well as key insights of Timothy Morton regarding the experience of climate change and the experience of literature according to Maurice Blanchot, this thesis tries to show how our experience of literature has changed. The literary texts may have stayed the same, the way in which we read them has certainly not. The awareness of climate change has forced us to recognize that we are connected to and have a bearing on everything else on earth. This awareness makes it so that we read literary texts according to this awareness.

Literature

Philosophy

Climate Change

Heidegger

Blanchot

Morton

Author

Braams, Maarten

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Modern European Philosophy

Supervisors

Dr. C.E. Diehl

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en