On Extinction

Auteur

Ben Ware 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 Dialectic of the Ladder: Wittgenstein, the ‘Tractatus’ and Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2015); Living Wrong Life Rightly: Modernism, Ethics, and the Political Imagination (Palgrave, 2017); and editor of Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis (Thames & Hudson, 2019). His recent essays have appeared in e-flux journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and ESP magazine.

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Philosophy at the end of the world

Résumé
Philosophy at the end of the world

Contenu

Preface

1 A Dialectics of Extinction
2 Extinction Episodes: From the Sublime to the Demonic
3 The Death Drive at the End of the World
4 Beginning Again at the End

Notes