Last Things: A Consideration of the Implications of Rapid Climate Change

Last Things: A Consideration of the Implications of Rapid Climate Change

Spring (9 - 13 hours) | This course has been canceled

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4/16/2021-5/21/2021

9:30 AM-11:30 AM EDT on Fri

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$65.00

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Last Things is an experimental course on the impact on our psyches of even the prospect of rapid, catastrophic climate change. It’s not a course on climate crisis per se nor on its causes but rather on the effect on our consciousness -- individual and collective -- of its widely discussed potential for bringing about societal and environmental collapse. The course will involve considerable personal reflection as well as readings from many observers from a variety of cultures on the question of the 'end' of their known worlds. There will be ample time for small group discussions and general class participation.

Kearns, Cleo

Cleo McNelly Kearns works in the fields of anthropology, continental philosophy and religious studies. She published a number of essays and studies in peer reviewed journals and two books, T. S. Eliot and Eastern Traditions, and The Virgin Mary: Motherhood, Sacrifice and Monotheism (both from Cambridge University Press). She has served on the faculties of Rutgers University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and New York University.