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End of the World: Contemporary Philosophy and Art

End of the World: Contemporary Philosophy and Art

Schuback, Marcia Sa Cavalcante
Lindberg, Susanna

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Series: Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Po

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1786602628
ISBN13: 9781786602626
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Sep 16 2018
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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