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How to Think About Catastrophe - Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying (Paperback)
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How to Think About Catastrophe - Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
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During the last century humanity acquired the ability to destroy
itself. The direct approach to destruction can be seen in such
facts as the ever-present threat of nuclear war, but we have also
developed the capacity to do indirect harm by altering conditions
necessary for survival, including the looming cloud of climate
change. How can we look forward and work past the dire position we
now find ourselves in to achieve a sustainable future? This volume
presents a new way of thinking about the future as it examines
catastrophe and the human response. It examines different kinds of
catastrophes that range from natural (e.g., earthquakes) to
industrial (e.g., Chernobyl) and concludes that the traditional
distinctions between them are only becoming blurrier by the day.
This book aims to build a general theory of catastrophes-a new form
of apocalyptic thinking that is grounded in science and philosophy.
An ethics for the sake of the future is what is required, which in
turn necessitates a new metaphysics of temporality. If a way out of
the imminent danger in which we find ourselves is to be found, we
must first look to radically alter our ethics.
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