The End of the World - Contemporary Philosophy and Art (Hardcover)

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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Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
Release date:	April 2017
Editors:	Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback • Susanna Lindberg
Dimensions:	237 x 161 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	316
ISBN-13:	978-1-78660-261-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78660-261-X
Barcode:	9781786602619

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