On Extinction - Beginning Again At the End

Philosophy at the end of the world

List of contents

Preface

1 A Dialectics of Extinction
2 Extinction Episodes: From the Sublime to the Demonic
3 The Death Drive at the End of the World
4 Beginning Again at the End

Notes

About the author

Ben Ware is Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Art at King's College London where he is also a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy. He is the author of Dialectic of the Ladder: Wittgenstein, the 'Tractatus' and Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2015); Living Wrong Life Rightly: Modernism, Ethics, and the Political Imagination (Palgrave, 2017); and editor of Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis (Thames & Hudson, 2019). His recent essays have appeared in e-flux journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and ESP magazine.

Summary

Philosophy at the end of the world

Product details

• Authors: Ben Ware, Ware Ben
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2024
• EAN: 9781788739993
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-999-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism