Civilizational collapse and the philosophy of post-apocalyptical survival
The collapse of civilization, the end of the world as we know it, has long been a cultural imaginary, but has rarely been as topical as it is today. Beyond the phantasmagoria of violence, depression and despair, the conviction of being doomed has always been a challenge to imagine a new, post-apocal...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
2025
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| Series: | Global studies in education
39 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://www.peterlang.com/search?searchstring=9781636673615
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| Author Notes: | Tina (Athlone C.) Besley, Cameron McCarthy, Fazal Rizvi, Michael A. Peters, Michael A. Peters, Thomas Meier |
Table of Contents:
- Michael A Peters & Thomas Meier: Civilizational Collapse and the Philosophy of Post-Apocalyptical Survival – An Introduction - Collapse - Petar Jandrić: Apocalypse: Postdigital Readings and Response - Ruth Irwin: The Transcendental Aesthetic as Simulacrum: Truth, Preppers, and the End of the World as we Know It - João José R.L. de Almeida: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and the civilizational collapse - Babette Babich: Günther Anders’ Apocalypse Blindness and the Post-Apocalyptic - Paulo Ghiraldelli: Machinic subjectivity - Peter McLaren: Surplus Fascism and the Post-Digital Apocalypse in the Age of Anti-Woke Terrorism - Decolonial - Marianna Papastephanou: The Cosmopolitics of Apocalyptic Thought - Antonio Miguel, Carolina Tamayo & Elizabeth Gomes Souza: The fifth horseman of the apocalypse - Makere Stewart-Harawira & Georgina Tuari Stewart: Māori in the Post-Apocalypse - Adrian Hermann: Adventures from the Rubble: The (Post-)Apocalypse as a Mode of Play in Tabletop Role-Playing Games - Ecology - David A. Turner: Living at the Edge of Chaos - Benjamin Green: Ecological Civilization: Engaging the complexity of ecological crisis - Greg William Misiaszek: Without a Possible Vaccine, Ecopedagogical Paradigm Shift Vital to Avoid Ecological Collapse - Zhou Guowen & Cai Xinyi: Reflections on environmental ethics of boundary and domain
- Based on the Taoist View of nature - Maryam Dezhamhooy & Leila Papoli-Yazdi: Margins with the central role: an archaeology of living with toxics and pollution - Education - Trevor Norris: Education, the Far Future, and the End of Times - Arjen E.J. Wals: Earth centered – an invitation to relational transgressive learning as a counter-hegemonic force in times of systemic global dysfunction - Michael Jopling & Peter Bennett: Is this the promised end? Low end theory, education and the illusion of survival - Yi Chen & Boris Steipe: Cultivating Knowledge: The Anti-Apocalyptic Potential of Bildung - Yusef Waghid: (African) University Education Discourse in a Crisis: On the Brink of Collapse? - Change - Steve Fuller: An education for end times - Sharon Rider: Where Do We Stand? (Or How to Do Something in Particular) - Marek Tesar, Andrew Madjar & Adriano De Francesco: Future Horizons: Doing Pedagogy at the Edge of Chaos - Holger Hestermeyer: International law and cooperation in times of crises - Actualities - Shail Mayaram: The Nation as Lament: The Sars Corona in India and the Reshaping of the Social and the Political - Michael A. Peters: Xi’s Global Civilization Initiative - Henry A. Giroux:Mass Shootings in the Age of the Apocalypse: Politics and the Ghosts of History - Thomas Meier & Michael A. Peters: Never-ending ends: Present, past and future – a postscript - Notes on the contributors