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  1. Worlds ending, ending worlds
    understanding apocalyptic transformation
  2. Worlds ending. Ending worlds
    understanding apocalyptic transformation
    Contributor: Stümer, Jenny (HerausgeberIn); Dunn, Michael (HerausgeberIn); Eisler, David F. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2024]; © 2024
    Publisher:  De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin

    The notion of apocalypse is an age-old concept which has gained renewed interest in popular and scholarly discourse. The book highlights the versatile explications of apocalypse today, demonstrating that apocalyptic transformations - the various... more

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    The notion of apocalypse is an age-old concept which has gained renewed interest in popular and scholarly discourse. The book highlights the versatile explications of apocalypse today, demonstrating that apocalyptic transformations - the various encounters with anthropogenic climate change, nuclear violence, polarized politics, colonial assault, and capitalist extractivism - navigate a range of interdisciplinary views on the present moment. Moving from old worlds to new worlds, from world-ending experiences to apocalyptic imaginaries and, finally, from authoritarianism to activism and advocacy, the contributions begin to map the emerging field of Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies. Foregrounding the myriad ways in which collective imaginations of apocalypse underpin ethical, political, and, sometimes, individual experience, the authors provide key points of reference for understanding old and new predicaments that are transforming our many worlds

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Stümer, Jenny (HerausgeberIn); Dunn, Michael (HerausgeberIn); Eisler, David F. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783110786521; 3110786524
    Other identifier:
    9783110786521
    RVK Categories: CC 8300 ; BE 2460 ; EC 6745 ; IQ 00017 ; MR 5800 ; MS 1290
    Series: Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic studies ; volume 1
    Subjects: General & world history; Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte; HISTORY / World
    Scope: VIII, 250 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm x 15.5 cm
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    Literaturangaben. - Index