[D66] The ends of the world

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The Ends of the World

The Ends of the World
Déborah Danowski, 
<https://politybooks.com/author-book/?authid=D%C3%A9borah+Danowski> 
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro 
<https://politybooks.com/author-book/?authid=Eduardo+Viveiros+de+Castro>
Translated by Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes

The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of 
course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary 
apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic 
studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different 
ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects 
of global warming, some of these visions have been given a new lease on 
life. Information and analyses concerning the human causes and the 
catastrophic consequences of the planetary ‘crisis’ have been 
accumulating at an ever-increasing rate, mobilising popular opinion as 
well as academic reflection.

In this book, philosopher Déborah Danowski and anthropologist Eduardo 
Viveiros de Castro offer a bold overview and interpretation of these 
current discourses on ‘the end of the world’, reading them as thought 
experiments on the decline of the West’s anthropological adventure Ð 
that is, as attempts, though not necessarily intentional ones, at 
inventing a mythology that is adequate to the present. This work has 
important implications for the future development of ecological 
practices and it will appeal to a broad audience interested in 
contemporary anthropology, philosophy, and environmentalism.

More Info

  * December 2016
  * 180 pages
  * 140 x 219 mm / 6 x 9 in

Available Formats

  * Hardback £45.00 €50.90
  * 9781509503971
  * Paperback £14.99 €19.95
  * 9781509503988
  * Open eBook £11.99 €14.99
  * 9781509504015


Reviews

In their powerful essay on the climate crisis that humans face today, 
Danowski and Viveiros de Castro propose nothing short of a radically new 
and pluralist philosophical anthropology that is bound to reinvigorate 
humanist and post-humanist debates on anthropogenic global warming. A 
brilliant tour de force.
*Dipesh Chakrabarty, The University of Chicago

* This is a passionate, profoundly intelligent book. The ends of time 
are not the Anthropocene; that is a boundary, not a destiny. What comes 
next cannot be allowed to be the barbarism of the techno moderns. In 
this book, recomposition tracks along the Möbius strip of still 
imaginable, still liveable thought, mythology, and world-making 
practices indigenous to terrans. Actual indigenous peoples, who have 
refused to end in end time after end time, can perhaps teach the needed 
subsistence of the future.
*Donna Haraway, University of California
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