End of the World : Civilization and Its Fate

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End of the World : Civilization and Its Fate

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 258 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781538189009
  • DDC分類 301

Full Description

Are we on the brink of human extinction? Is civilization destined toward self-annihilation? We must not underestimate the risk of the possibility that we may become extinct fairly soon. We are facing a planetary ecological crisis with runaway greenhouse gas emissions, environmental destruction, extreme climate change, human overpopulation, global catastrophic hazards including the threat of world war, nuclear holocaust, bioterror, pandemic infectious diseases, famine, water scarcity, religious fanaticism, techno nihilism, public health calamities, obscene disparities in wealth and poverty, civil disorder, and the anathema of evil that could bring about the end of the world. Philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills provides the first book of its kind that examines the ominous existential risks that could bring about the end of civilization. Drawing on the psychological motivations, unconscious conflicts, and cultural complexes that drive human behavior and social relations, he offers fresh new perspectives on the looming fate of humanity based on a collective bystander disorder.

In this timely book, the author explores the emergencies that could ignite an apocalypse. As we stand idly by as passive global bystanders in the face of ecological, economic, and societal collapse, we must seriously question whether humanity is under the sway of a collective unconscious death wish.

Contents

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

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