TY  - JOUR
AU  - Simon C. ESTOK
PY  - 2023
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology
IS  - 2
VL  - 17
SN  - 2065-5002
TI  - Art, ethics, responsibility, crisis: literature and climate change
DO  - 10.3726/CUL022020.0003
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1377601
N2  - Literature has an ethical obligation to respond to the climate change crisis, and scholars have a responsibility to understand how these responses work. Neither the humanities nor the sciences have a good record when it comes to encouraging people to limit their desires, their consumption, or their growth. While there may be genetic reasons for this failure, calls for humanity to limit itself need better responses. Literature can help us to respond better to climate change, but only if we reconceptualize narrative and accord to it the importance it once held as a source not only of entertainment but of knowledge necessary for our very survival
KW  - climate change, literature, ethics, ecocriticism, knowledge and responsibility
ER  -