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End of the World
Civilization and Its Fate
Buch von Jon Mills
Sprache: Englisch

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Famine. Extreme climate change. Threats of global war and nuclear annihilation. Obscene wealth disparities. Is civilization destined for self-annihilation? In this timely book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills explores the emergencies that could ignite an apocalypse. As we idly stand by 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. Examining ominous existential risks and 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.
End of the World is a warning about the dangerous precipice we find ourselves careening toward and a call to action to take control of our own fate.
Famine. Extreme climate change. Threats of global war and nuclear annihilation. Obscene wealth disparities. Is civilization destined for self-annihilation? In this timely book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills explores the emergencies that could ignite an apocalypse. As we idly stand by 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. Examining ominous existential risks and 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.
End of the World is a warning about the dangerous precipice we find ourselves careening toward and a call to action to take control of our own fate.
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By Jon Mills
Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Psychoanalyse
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 258
ISBN-13: 9781538189009
ISBN-10: 1538189003
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Mills, Jon
Hersteller: R & L Education
Maße: 235 x 157 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Jon Mills
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.06.2024
Gewicht: 0,576 kg
preigu-id: 127638672
Über den Autor
By Jon Mills
Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Psychoanalyse
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 258
ISBN-13: 9781538189009
ISBN-10: 1538189003
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Mills, Jon
Hersteller: R & L Education
Maße: 235 x 157 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Jon Mills
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.06.2024
Gewicht: 0,576 kg
preigu-id: 127638672
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