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Spotkania na krańcach życia
Encounters at the End of Life

Author(s): Jakub Momro
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Human Ecology, Environmental interactions, Globalization
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: apocalyptic imagination; extinction of genres; biological death; politics of nature; natural contract; climate wars; climate crisis; biosphere;

Summary/Abstract: Momro outlines the key themes currently bearing on the humanities with regard to the challenges that humanity faces as a species that destroys the planet. His main thesis is that the humanities must reformulate their ways of legitimising and creating knowledge and truth procedures. Momro highlights the essential elements of the biological, technological, environmental and climate crisis in the context of the discursive and political crisis that emerges with the revival of the apocalyptic imagination.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-25
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish
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