On Extinction

Beginning Again At The End

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-12
Mått:140 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:288 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Verso Books
ISBN:9781788739993

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Ben Ware is Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Art at King's College London where he is also a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy. He is the author of Dialectic of the Ladder: Wittgenstein, the 'Tractatus' and Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2015); Living Wrong Life Rightly: Modernism, Ethics, and the Political Imagination (Palgrave, 2017); and editor of Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis (Thames & Hudson, 2019). His recent essays have appeared in e-flux journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and ESP magazine.

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On Extinction is a formidable intervention. The end is too serious a matter to be treated as tragedy or heroic sacrifice; rather, as Ben Ware shows, thinking it requires the materialist dialectic and its predilection for comedy: stubbornly beginning again, and again.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface1 A Dialectics of Extinction2 Extinction Episodes: From the Sublime to the Demonic3 The Death Drive at the End of the World4 Beginning Again at the EndNotes