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Cultural Bias Meets Apocalyptic Fear
In: Cold war history, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 251-260
ISSN: 1743-7962
A review essay on a book edited by Louis J. Smith, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1975, Vol. XI: South Asia Crisis, 1971 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2005).
Secular apocalyptic and Thomas Hardy
In: History of European ideas, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 201-210
ISSN: 0191-6599
Secular apocalyptic and Thomas Hardy
In: History of European ideas, Band 26, Heft 3-4, S. 201-210
ISSN: 0191-6599
Secular apocalyptic and Thomas Hardy
In: History of European ideas, Band 26, Heft 3-4, S. 201-210
ISSN: 0191-6599
Winter Books: Rooted in Apocalyptic Imperatives
In: The new leader: a biweekly of news and opinion, Band 83, Heft 5, S. 34-35
ISSN: 0028-6044
Apocalyptic Texts, Phenomenology of Immensity
In: Space and Culture, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 75-83
ISSN: 1552-8308
Apocalyptic cults and Japanese religiosity
In: Japan review of international affairs, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 116-127
ISSN: 0913-8773
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Apocalyptic Realm: Jihadists in South Asia
In: Terrorism and political violence, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 499-501
ISSN: 0954-6553
Apocalyptic Prophecy and Foreign Affairs
In: Diplomatic history, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 277-277
ISSN: 1467-7709
Worlds ending. Ending worlds: understanding apocalyptic transformation
In: Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic studies volume 1
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
Apocalyptic narratives: science, risk and prophecy
In: Routledge studies in science, technology and society
"Linking literature from the sociological study of the apocalyptic with the sociology and philosophy of science, Apocalyptic Narratives explores how the apocalyptic narrative frames and provides meaning to contemporary, secular and scientific crises, focussing on nuclear war, general environmental crisis and climate change in both English and German speaking cultural contexts. In particular, the book will use social identity and representation theories, the sociologies of risk and Lakatos' philosophy of science to trace how our cultural background and apocalyptic tradition shape our wider interpretation, communication and response to contemporary global crisis. The set of environmental and other challenges that the world is facing is often framed in terms of apocalyptic or existential crisis. Yet apocalyptic fears about the near future are nothing new. This book looks at the narrative connections between our current sense of crisis and the apocalyptic. The book will be of interest to readers interested in environmental crisis and communication, the sociology and philosophy of science and existential risk, but also to readers interested in the apocalyptic and its contemporary relevance"--
American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
In: Modern Americas
Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in American culture, drawing from a wide range of primary and critical works from the early-twentieth century to today. Beginning with science fiction in literary magazines, before taking in radio dramas, film, video games and expansive transmedia franchises, Robert Yeates argues that post-apocalyptic representations of the American city are uniquely suited for explorations of contemporary urban issues. Examining how the post-apocalyptic American city has been repeatedly adapted and repurposed to new and developing media over the last century, this book reveals that the content and form of such texts work together to create vivid and immersive fictional spaces in ways that would otherwise not be possible. Chapters present media-specific analyses of these texts, situating them within their historical contexts and the broader history of representations of urban ruins in American fiction. Original in its scope and cross-media approach, American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction both illuminates little-studied texts and provides provocative new readings of familiar works such as Blade Runner and The Walking Dead, placing them within the larger historical context of imaginings of the American city in ruins.
Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, and the "Apocalyptic View"
In: Philosophy of the social sciences: an international journal = Philosophie des sciences sociales, Band 46, Heft 6, S. 565-583
ISSN: 1552-7441
Some aspects of Wittgenstein's thought are considered in the light of a remark he makes about the "apocalyptic" view of the world. The influence of Tolstoy on Wittgenstein is discussed and elaborated with reference to the idea of a "form of life" as a locus of order, and also to that of "exceptionality" in an unfolding course of events—the latter setting up a connection with the "apocalyptic" theme. This imaginative backdrop remains discernible in Wittgenstein's later philosophy, which draws upon it to perhaps unexpected effect in achieving a dialectical balance between the motifs of order and breakdown.