THE END OF THE WORLD by Susanna Lindberg (Editor) ( 9781786602619 )

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THE END OF THE WORLD
CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY AND ART

By:

Susanna Lindberg (Editor)

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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNATIONAL

Pub. date:

29 March, 2017

Series:

Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and

Pages:

316

Description:

Omnipresent in popular culture, especially in film and literature, the theme of the 'end of the world' is often rejected from contemporary philosophy as hysterical apocalyptism. This volume attempts to show that it is vital that we address the motif of the 'end' in contemporary world - but that this cannot be done without thinking it anew.

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The 'end of the world' opens up philosophical questions concerning the very notion of the world, which is a fundamental element of all existential, phenomenological and hermeneutical philosophy. Is the 'end of the world' for us 'somebody's' death (the end of 'being-in-the-world') or the extinction of many or of all (the end of the world itself)? Is the erosion of the 'world' a phenomenon that does not in fact affect the notion of the world as a fundamental feature of all existential-ontological inquiry? This volume examines the present state of these concerns in philosophy, film and literature. It presents a philosophical hermeneutics of the present state of the world and explores the principal questions of the philosophical accounts of the end of the world, such as finality and finitude. It also shows how literature and cinema have ventured to express the end of the world while asking if a consequent expression of the end of the world is also an end of its expression.

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