{"product_id":"on-extinction-isbn-9781788739993","title":"On Extinction","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This path-breaking book by one of the sharpest minds in contemporary philosophy will live on for a very long time.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Dany Nobus, author of \u003ci\u003eCritique of Psychoanalytic Reason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophy at the end of the world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face ‘the end of all things’, Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching. In fact, extinction is the very lens through which we should examine our current reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRadical politics today should not be concerned with merely averting the worst but rather with beginning again at the end. To think about the future in this way is itself a form of liberation that might incubate the necessary radical solutions we need.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining lessons from Kant, Hegel, Adorno, and Lacan, as well as drawing on popular culture and ecology, Ware recasts the most urgent issue of our times and resolves that we can only consider our collective end by treating it as a starting point.Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Dialectics of Extinction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Extinction Episodes: From the Sublime to the Demonic\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Death Drive at the End of the World\u003cbr\u003e 4. Beginning Again at the End\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgement\u003cbr\u003e Notes\"\u003ci\u003eOn Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e is a formidable intervention. The end is too serious a matter to be treated as tragedy or heroic sacrifice; rather, as Ben Ware shows, thinking it requires the materialist dialectic and its predilection for comedy: stubbornly beginning again, and again.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alenka Zupancic, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat IS Sex?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sweeping tour of our crisis present…Ben Ware offers a series of incisive and unforgiving readings that guide and impel us through the wreckage of contemporary capitalism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Benjamin Noys, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Matter of Language\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important book for our time. \u003ci\u003eOn Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e follows what the late Gustav Metzger always told me: it is not enough to talk about climate change, we have to talk about extinction.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director Serpentine Galleries, London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ben Ware’s wonderfully lucid new book exposes the diabolical evil of the cult of capitalism in its limitless assault on life in all its forms. It is by going through the disaster that we will find the path to planetary liberation. An essentially, urgently necessary intervention.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Richard Seymour, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Disenchanted Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carefully researched, tightly constructed, and broadly accessible, Ware’s argument is both subversive and indispensable. Whatever happens next, one thing is sure: this path-breaking book by one of the sharpest minds in contemporary philosophy will live on for a very long time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dany Nobus, author of \u003ci\u003eCritique of Psychoanalytic Reason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How should critical theory address the multiple catastrophes raging through the planet - war, pandemic, climate chaos, and the like - and the threat of human extinction that they pose? Ben Ware offers a lucid, illuminating, and erudite response of great value in recalibrating our thinking to address the terrifying world we now inhabit\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alex Callinicos, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Age of Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What philosopher Ben Ware is asking, then, is for us to imagine-to internalize-the reality of human finitude, the end of us. Only then, he suggests, will we be able to take in the full horizon of what we've wrought and, perhaps, move forward into a new and radical version of our shared future.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this bold, fast-moving philosophical essay, which is as elegant and erudite as it is forcefully argued, Ben Ware develops not simply an aesthetics or ethics of extinction but a politics capable of responding to its almost unthinkable existential challenge. This is a brilliant book, bristling with both provocative ideas and perceptive, often unexpected readings.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Matt Beaumontt, author of \u003ci\u003eHow We Walk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eOn Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e, Ben Ware writes towards a collective time liberated from the paradoxical, narcissistic apocalypse narratives of the 21st century: that it is both too late for the planet and that we must urgently act now to save it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Autumn Wright, \u003ci\u003eBullet Points\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deftly combining insights from philosophy, psychoanalysis and critical theory, \u003ci\u003eOn Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e dialectically rethinks the end for an era in which the end cannot be thought.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Thomas Waller, \u003ci\u003eMarx \u0026amp; Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"On Extinction is rooted in modes of resituating, recapitulating, and redefining, in this case with regard to the extent to which critical theory and philosophy might be more usefully, rationally, and actionably hospitable to discussions of climate change, catastrophic events, and the end of human existence by establishing a ‘dialectics of extinction’ – a way of addressing the realities of our catastrophic present by coming to terms with extinctions, and extinction-level anxieties, of the past.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Paul D'Agostino, \u003ci\u003eArt Spiel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Ware\u003c\/b\u003e is Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Art at King’s College London where he is also a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDialectic of the Ladder: Wittgenstein, the ‘Tractatus’ and Modernism \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2015); \u003ci\u003eLiving Wrong Life Rightly: Modernism, Ethics, and the Political Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave, 2017); and editor of \u003ci\u003eFrancis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003c\/i\u003e, 2019). His recent essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003ee-flux journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eESP\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301638787301,"sku":"NP9781788739993","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781788739993.jpg?v=1767734086","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/on-extinction-isbn-9781788739993","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}