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Ends of the World </div>
<div class="author_name pull-left"><a
href="https://politybooks.com/author-book/?authid=D%C3%A9borah+Danowski">Déborah
Danowski,</a> <a
href="https://politybooks.com/author-book/?authid=Eduardo+Viveiros+de+Castro">Eduardo
Viveiros de Castro</a> </div>
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<p><span class="desc_span" style="opacity: 1; border:
0px solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">The
end of the world is a seemingly interminable
topic Ð at least, of course, </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="opacity: 1; border: 0px
solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">until
it happens. Environmental catastrophe and
planetary apocalypse are </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="opacity: 1; border: 0px
solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">subjects
of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic
studies show, human </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="opacity: 1; border: 0px
solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">cultures
have approached them in very different ways.
Indeed, in the face of </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="opacity: 1; border: 0px
solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">the
growing perception of the dire effects of global
warming, some of these </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="opacity: 1; border: 0px
solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">visions
have been given a new lease on life. Information
and analyses </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="opacity: 1; border: 0px
solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">concerning
the human causes and the catastrophic
consequences of the </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="opacity: 1; border: 0px
solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">planetary
‘crisis’ have been accumulating at an
ever-increasing rate, </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="opacity: 1; border: 0px
solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">mobilising
popular opinion as well as academic reflection.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="desc_span" style="opacity: 1; border:
0px solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">In
this book, philosopher Déborah Danowski and
anthropologist Eduardo </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="display: inline; opacity:
1; border: 0px solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">Viveiros
de Castro offer a bold overview and
interpretation of these current </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="display: inline; opacity:
1; border: 0px solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">discourses
on ‘the end of the world’, reading them as
thought experiments on </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="display: inline; opacity:
1; border: 0px solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">the
decline of the West’s anthropological adventure
Ð that is, as attempts, </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="display: inline; opacity:
1; border: 0px solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">though
not necessarily intentional ones, at inventing a
mythology that is </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="display: inline; opacity:
1; border: 0px solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">adequate
to the present. This work has important
implications for the future </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="display: inline; opacity:
1; border: 0px solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">development
of ecological practices and it will appeal to a
broad audience </span></span><span
class="desc_span" style="display: inline; opacity:
1; border: 0px solid red;"><span class="desc_span"
style="opacity: 1; border: 0px solid red;">interested
in contemporary anthropology, philosophy, and
environmentalism.</span></span></p>
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<div class="review2" style="padding-bottom:20px;"> 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.<br>
<b> Dipesh Chakrabarty, The University of Chicago<br>
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</b> 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.<br>
<b> Donna Haraway, University of California <br>
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