Mills, Jon, University of Essex, Adel

End of the World

Civilization and Its Fate

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Produktbeschreibung

Philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills examines the ominous existential risks that could bring about the end of civilization. He draws on the psychological motivations, unconscious conflicts, and cultural complexes that drive human behavior and social relations to offer a fresh perspective on the looming fate of humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781538189009
• ISBN-10: 1538189003
• Artikelnr.: 68887699

Autorenporträt

By Jon Mills

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prolegomenon: On the Brink of Extinction
1. Here on Earth
Global Bystanders in the Face of Ecological Crisis
The Revenge of Gaia
Too Big to Fix
2. 10 Billion
What can We Learn from Rats?
Overpopulation and the Food Supply
Withering Water
The Worse is yet to Come: Pandemics, Economic Paralysis, and Societal
Collapse
3. The Evil that Men Do
The Need to Kill
The Ontology of Prejudice
On the Universality of Evil
The Ethics of Killing
Institutionalized Evil
4. The Doomsday Clock is Ticking
Dropping the Bomb
The Doomsday Argument
Existential Risks
Should we take the Doomsday Argument Seriously?
Our Final Century?
5. Apocalypse Now
On Sin
Apocalypse, Millennialism, and Eschaton
The (un)Holy Land
Apocalyptic Discourse in Post-Millennial Culture
Futuristic Fantasies
Disparities
The New After
6. Global Catastrophic Risks
Defining Risk
Big-Picture Hazards
Economic Disintegration
Techno Nihilism
Superintelligences
7. A World without Recognition
The Need to be Acknowledged
Dysrecognition as Social Pathology
Unconscious Politics and the Other
A Failure of Empathy
Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma
8. Living in the End Times
From a Plastic Island to a World Seed Vault
It Took a Child
Predicting the Future
Democracy Incorporated
From Catastrophe to Renewal
Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding
The Last Resistance
References
Index
About the Author