The End Of The World : Contemporary Philosophy And Art - 9781786602626

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 book 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--Back cover.

• | Author: Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Susanna Lindberg, Susanna Lindberg
• | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• | Publication Date: Sep 16, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 316 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1786602628
• | ISBN-13: 9781786602626