The End of the World: Contemporary Philosophy and Art

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178660261X
• ISBN13: 9781786602619
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"