By intertwining his own experiences with broader philosophical inquiries, Nikolaj Schultz proposes a new existentialism in for the Anthropocene age. In this in depth interview, we discuss why collectivism and individualism are not mutually exclusive, how the climate crisis is bringing about new forms of philosophy and why this is leading to an existential metamorphosis. Why did you write the book? And why did you choose this auto-fictive/’ethnografictive’ style? It’s true, the book is written in a quite weird genre, far from how I normally write books, between the personal and the theoretical. The reason was that I wanted to capture the affects, the experience, the emotions of living on a climate damaged planet – and for this, I needed another genre, and a more subjective or personal style. As you indicate, I call i…
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