Philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills examines the ominous existential risks that could bring about the end of civilization. He draws on the psychological motivations, unconscious conflicts, and cultural complexes that drive human behavior and social relations to offer a fresh perspective on the looming fate of humanity.
Philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills examines the ominous existential risks that could bring about the end of civilization. He draws on the psychological motivations, unconscious conflicts, and cultural complexes that drive human behavior and social relations to offer a fresh perspective on the looming fate of humanity.
Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. He is Honorary Professor, Department of Psychosocial & Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK, on Faculty in the Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, USA, and on Faculty and is a Supervising Analyst at the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, USA. Recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship including 5 Gradiva Awards, he is the author and/or editor of over 30 books in psychoanalysis, philosophy, psychology, and cultural studies including most recently Psyche, Culture, World. In 2015 he was given the Otto Weininger Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Canadian Psychological Association.
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Preface Prolegomenon: On the Brink of Extinction 1. Here on Earth Global Bystanders in the Face of Ecological Crisis The Revenge of Gaia Too Big to Fix 2. 10 Billion What can We Learn from Rats? Overpopulation and the Food Supply Withering Water The Worse is yet to Come: Pandemics, Economic Paralysis, and Societal Collapse 3. The Evil that Men Do The Need to Kill The Ontology of Prejudice On the Universality of Evil The Ethics of Killing Institutionalized Evil 4. The Doomsday Clock is Ticking Dropping the Bomb The Doomsday Argument Existential Risks Should we take the Doomsday Argument Seriously? Our Final Century? 5. Apocalypse Now On Sin Apocalypse, Millennialism, and Eschaton The (un)Holy Land Apocalyptic Discourse in Post-Millennial Culture Futuristic Fantasies Disparities The New After 6. Global Catastrophic Risks Defining Risk Big-Picture Hazards Economic Disintegration Techno Nihilism Superintelligences 7. A World without Recognition The Need to be Acknowledged Dysrecognition as Social Pathology Unconscious Politics and the Other A Failure of Empathy Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma 8. Living in the End Times From a Plastic Island to a World Seed Vault It Took a Child Predicting the Future Democracy Incorporated From Catastrophe to Renewal Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding The Last Resistance References Index About the Author
Preface Prolegomenon: On the Brink of Extinction 1. Here on Earth Global Bystanders in the Face of Ecological Crisis The Revenge of Gaia Too Big to Fix 2. 10 Billion What can We Learn from Rats? Overpopulation and the Food Supply Withering Water The Worse is yet to Come: Pandemics, Economic Paralysis, and Societal Collapse 3. The Evil that Men Do The Need to Kill The Ontology of Prejudice On the Universality of Evil The Ethics of Killing Institutionalized Evil 4. The Doomsday Clock is Ticking Dropping the Bomb The Doomsday Argument Existential Risks Should we take the Doomsday Argument Seriously? Our Final Century? 5. Apocalypse Now On Sin Apocalypse, Millennialism, and Eschaton The (un)Holy Land Apocalyptic Discourse in Post-Millennial Culture Futuristic Fantasies Disparities The New After 6. Global Catastrophic Risks Defining Risk Big-Picture Hazards Economic Disintegration Techno Nihilism Superintelligences 7. A World without Recognition The Need to be Acknowledged Dysrecognition as Social Pathology Unconscious Politics and the Other A Failure of Empathy Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma 8. Living in the End Times From a Plastic Island to a World Seed Vault It Took a Child Predicting the Future Democracy Incorporated From Catastrophe to Renewal Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding The Last Resistance References Index About the Author
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