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From climate change to nuclear war to the rise of demagogic populists, our world is shaped by doomsday expectations. In this path-breaking book, Alison McQueen shows why three of history's greatest political realists feared apocalyptic politics. Niccolò Machiavelli in the midst of Italy's vicious power struggles, Thomas Hobbes during England's bloody civil war, and Hans Morgenthau at the dawn of the thermonuclear age all saw the temptation to prophesy the end of days. Each engaged in subtle and surprising strategies to oppose apocalypticism, from using its own rhetoric to neutralize its worst effects to insisting on a clear-eyed, tragic acceptance of the human condition. Scholarly yet accessible, this book is at once an ambitious contribution to the history of political thought and a work that speaks to our times

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. ; 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.

Intro -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Eschatology and the Theory of Apocalypse -- Introduction -- Mythology and Social Sciences -- Mircea Eliade and the Myth of Eternal Return -- The Fourth Turning -- The Theory of Apocalypse Explained with Clarity -- The Theory of Apocalypse and Cinema -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Interrogating on the Essence of the Zombie World -- Introduction -- The Literature and Cinema As Anthropological Fields -- Seeing Is Believing -- The Sociology of the Zombie -- World War Z (A Max Brooks Novel) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Undesired Other -- Introduction -- The American Exceptionalism -- Terror and Humanitarian Reasons -- What Is Wrong with Feminism? -- The Abortion and the End of Hospitality -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The War on Terror -- Introduction -- Sociology After 9/11 -- The Preventive Wars -- The Problem of the Precautionary Principle -- How Terrorism Is Changing Us -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Tourism in the Days of Morbid Consumption -- Introduction -- Preliminary Debate -- The Rationality of Development -- Tourism, Colonialism and Development -- Thinking Ethics in Tourism -- Is Rationality the Heart of the Market? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Israel State, Genocide and Thana-Capitalism -- Introduction -- The Anthropology of Holocaust -- Modernity and the Consumption of Death -- What Is Thana-Capitalism? -- The State of Israel and the Power of Prophecy -- What Is the Role of Prophecy in This Process? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Disasters in the Society of Fear -- Introduction -- Humanitarian Disasters -- The Narratives of Disasters -- Understanding Resilience: An Anthropological Viewpoint -- Poverty in Perspective -- The Nature of Pain in the Society of Fear -- The Ideological Core of Poverty -- Conclusion.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation -- Part 1: From Old Worlds to New Worlds -- A Political Theology of the World That Ends -- A Godless Apocalypse and the Atom Bombs: Ronald Knox and a New Concept of World Ending -- Remembering John Ball: Rethinking the Transformation from Old Worlds to New -- Part 2: World Ending Experiences -- New World and the End of the World: Apocalyptic Cartographies of the Conquest -- Mapping Space and Time in Apocalyptic Representations in Latin American Colonial Art -- Restitutive Writings of Worlds at the Southern Confine of the World -- Part 3: Apocalyptic Imaginaries -- The Infrastructure of the Planets of the Apes -- Pralaya: Competing Apocalypses and Dystopias in Contemporary Indian Science-Fiction -- Part 4: Action, Activism, Advocacy -- The Cross and the Pink Shotgun: Apocalypse and the Antifeminist Movement in Bolsonaro's Brazil -- World without Humans, Humans without World: Apocalyptic Passions in the Anthropocene -- The Wheelchair and the Whale: Disability and the End of the World -- Contributors -- Index.

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.

Apocalyptic scenarios remain prevalent and powerful in popular culture (in television, film, comic books, and popular fiction), in politics (in debates on climate change, environmentalism, Middle East policy, and military planning), and in various religious traditions. Academic interest in apocalypticism is flourishing; indeed, the study of both ancient and contemporary apocalyptic phenomena has long been a focus of attention in scholarly research and a ready way to engage the religious studies classroom. Apocalypses in Context is designed for just such a classroom, bringing together the insights of scholars in various fields and using different methods to discuss the manifestations of apocalyptic enthusiasm in different ages (Part I: Ancient Apocalyptic Literature; Part II: Apocalypticism through the Ages; Part III: Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World). This approach enables the instructor to make connections and students to recognize continuities and contrasts across history. Apocalypses in Context features illustrations, graphs, study questions, and suggestions for further reading after each chapter, as well as recommended media and artwork to support the college classroom

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Making sense of how we make sense of the world -- 3 The meaning of death and the making of time -- 4 Apocalyptic visions -- 5 What to know and how to know it -- 6 Risk -- 7 Utopias -- 8 Nuclear apocalypse and the nature of evil -- 9 Environmental apocalypse and the nature of nature -- 10 Climate apocalypse and the nature of prophecy -- 11 The end is near! -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Roots of the apocalyptic worldview -- 1 The original Book of Revelation -- 2 By this sign you will conquer: transformations of the Book of Revelation -- PART II The apocalyptic formula and terrorism -- 3 How not to make a terrorist: peaceful vs. radical apocalypticism -- 4 "One who swims in the sea does not fear rain": Al Qaeda and Sunni radical apocalypticism -- 5 The case of the self- declared "Islamic State": ISIS/ISIL -- 6 "The Lord God is a Man of War": Christian Identity teaching and radical apocalyptic terrorism -- 7 The humanpox versus green fire: eco-terrorists and eco-activists -- 8 Bringing Armageddon: Aum Shinrikyo -- PART III Conclusion -- 9 Creating peace in an apocalyptic moment -- Index.

"Hegel's philosophy of religion contains an implicit political theology. When viewed in connection with his wider work on subjectivity, history and politics, this political theology is a resource for apocalyptic thinking. In a world of climate change, inequality, oppressive gender roles and racism, Hegel can be used to theorise the hope found in the end of that world. Histories of apocalyptic thinking draw a line connecting the medieval prophet Joachim of Fiore and Marx. This line passes through Hegel, who transforms the relationship between philosophy and theology by philosophically employing theological concepts to critique the world. Jacob Taubes provides an example of this Hegelian political theology, weaving Christianity, Judaism and philosophy to develop an apocalypticism that is not invested in the world. Taubes awaits the end of the world knowing that apocalyptic destruction is also a form of creation. Catherine Malabou discusses this relationship between destruction and creation in terms of plasticity. Using plasticity to reformulate apocalypticism allows for a form of apocalyptic thinking that is immanent and materialist. Together Hegel, Taubes and Malabou provide the resources for thinking about why the world should end. The resulting apocalyptic pessimism is not passive, but requires an active refusal of the world."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments / Quinby, Lee -- Introduction. Threshold of Revelation -- 1. Skeptical Revelations of an American Feminist on Patmos -- 2. Teaching on the Threshold: Angels and Skeptics -- 3. Genealogical Skepticism: How Theory Confronts Millennialism -- 4. Millennialist Morality and the Problem of Chastity -- 5. Coercive Purity: The Dangerous Promise of Apocalyptic Masculinity -- 6. Feeling Jezebel: Exposing Apocalyptic Gender Panic and Other Con Games -- Addendum: Circuits of Revelation -- 7. Programmed Perfection, Technoppression, and Cyborg Flesh -- Epilogue: Skepticism as a Way of Life -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- The Post-Apocalyptic Genderings of Future Compostwealths -- References -- Section 1: Gender Utopias in and Against the Modern Project -- Chapter 1 -- Once upon a Time in the Modern Age: Women Who Dreamt of New Egalitarian Worlds -- Abstract -- Introduction -- A World Ruled by a Woman -- A Society Improved by Women -- A World Exclusively for Women -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Women of the World United: Gender and Utopia in Flora Tristán -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Flora Tristán And Utopia -- Flora Tristán and Gender -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Carole Pateman's Sexual Contract: Some Historiographical Challenges on Colonial and Modern Latin America -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Marriage -- Employment -- Justice -- Conclusion -- References -- Section 2: Radical Hybridizations for Other Genders/Worlds -- Chapter 4 -- The Queer Politics of Prison Abolition: Revisiting the Case of Latisha King -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theorizing Utopia: Elsewhere and Otherwise -- Animating Utopia -- Foreclosing Utopia, Redeeming Carceralism -- Trans Murder and the Limits of Love -- Conclusion: "What Do You Do with Someone Like That?" Abolition as Utopia, Utopia as Abolition -- References -- Chapter 5 -- Dealing with Oppression and Hybridity in Octavia E. Butler's Critical Dystopian Short Stories -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Emancipatory Role of Language in Dystopias -- Language and Literacy in Octavia E. Butler's Short Stories -- Negotiation as a Resistance Strategy against Oppression -- Translation as a Survival Strategy in Favor of Hybridty -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 -- Some Reflections on Utopia, Gender and Decoloniality -- Abstract -- Introduction: Utopia -- Gender -- Decoloniality -- The Rough Edges of Utopias -- Revisiting the Problem -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment.

The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss scoured the Amazon forest for the myths of its primitive peoples. He found that a certain logic governed the construction of these myths-his mythologique; he regarded this logic as innate in the human mind and thus universal