On extinction : beginning again at the end /

On extinction : beginning again at the end /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ware, Ben (Research Fellow), author.
Imprint:	London : Verso, 2024.
Description:	xii, 180 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Philosophical anthropology. Human beings -- Extinction -- Philosophy. Human beings -- Forecasting.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13497711

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ISBN:	178873999X 9781788739993
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [142]-180).
Summary:	"On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face 'the end of all things', Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching. In fact, extinction is the very lens through which we should examine our current reality. Radical politics today should not be concerned with merely averting the worst but rather with beginning again at the end. To think about the future in this way is itself a form of liberation that might incubate the necessary radical solutions we need. Combining lessons from Kant, Hegel, Adorno, and Lacan, as well as drawing on popular culture and ecology, Ware recasts the most urgent issue of our times and resolves that we can only consider our collective end by treating it as a starting point."--Amazon.com.

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. A Dialectics of Extinction
2. Extinction Episodes: From the Sublime to the Demonic
3. The Death Drive at the End of the World
4. Beginning Again at the End
Acknowledgements
Notes