Abstract

In this work, we try to account for the lush metaphors cultivated by Political Ecology around the global crisis that crosses all dimensions of the fabric of life. The concepts of life and environment, when historicized, reveal the structures by which the human being has been linked to the world. Starting from an intellectual history, specifically linked to the metaphorology of the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg, the allegorical background underlying the most radical ecological ontologies will be examined. In effect, these coincide with an attempt at a metanarrative or Biodicea based on the staging of an eschatological temporal display marked by environmental catastrophe as an irremediable destiny and, at the same time, an “ecotopia” in the event of being-in-the-being reconfigured. world. Salvation is deposited, then, in the redeemed community of the capitalist pathos, functioning rhetorically as both warning and hope regarding the future.

Keywords:
Metaphorical; Ecological crisis; Eschatology