End of the World
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-8900-9 (ISBN)
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.
Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. He is Honorary Professor, Department of Psychosocial & Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK, on Faculty in the Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, USA, and on Faculty and is a Supervising Analyst at the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, USA. Recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship including 5 Gradiva Awards, he is the author and/or editor of over 30 books in psychoanalysis, philosophy, psychology, and cultural studies including most recently Psyche, Culture, World. In 2015 he was given the Otto Weininger Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Canadian Psychological Association.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-8900-3 / 1538189003 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-8900-9 / 9781538189009 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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