The ends of the world /
"The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic; at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the f...
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Malden, MA :
Polity,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; Foreword by Bruno Latour; Epigraph; Prefatory note; Notes; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments for quotations in text; 1: What rough beast & Metaphysics and mythophysics; Notes; 2: & ts hour come round at last & Gaia and anthropos; The end-of-the-world perspective; Notes; 3: & louches toward Bethlehem to be born?; The world before us; The world after us; Notes; 4: The outside without thought, or the death of the Other; A certain worldless people of the recent past; The thanatological argument; "Nobody will miss it"; Notes
- 5: Alone at lastCeci n'est pas un monde; After the future: the end as beginning; The Great Indoors: Tarde's speculative speleology; Notes; 6: A world of people; The end of transformations, or the first Anthropocene; Anthropomorphism contra anthropocentrism; The end of the world of the Indians; Notes; 7: Humans and Terrans in the Gaia War; The impossible species; The end of the world as a fractal event; Notes; World on the brink; To believe in the world; Notes; Bibliography; Index; End User License Agreement