A Philosophy of Crisis
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A Philosophy of Crisis
A philosopher excavates the origins of our state of permanent crisis and charts a more promising path forward.
Crises abound—so many that it can be easy to lose perspective. In A Philosophy of Crisis, Miguel de Beistegui traces the intellectual development of ideas about crisis and identifies four distinct forms a crisis might take: crises of deviation, exception, contradiction, and extinction. Drawing on a range of examples (from economic crises to social uprisings, pandemics, and ecological devastation) and discourses (from ancient medicine to legal theory, political economy, philosophy, the earth sciences, and ecocriticism), A Philosophy of Crisis offers new conceptual tools for both understanding and avoiding the dangers of our crisis-saturated time.
Crises abound—so many that it can be easy to lose perspective. In A Philosophy of Crisis, Miguel de Beistegui traces the intellectual development of ideas about crisis and identifies four distinct forms a crisis might take: crises of deviation, exception, contradiction, and extinction. Drawing on a range of examples (from economic crises to social uprisings, pandemics, and ecological devastation) and discourses (from ancient medicine to legal theory, political economy, philosophy, the earth sciences, and ecocriticism), A Philosophy of Crisis offers new conceptual tools for both understanding and avoiding the dangers of our crisis-saturated time.
280 pages | 1 line drawings, 1 tables | 6 x 9
Philosophy: General Philosophy, Philosophy of Society, Political Philosophy
Political Science: Political and Social Theory
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Crisis: A Brief Critical History
2 Crises of Exception
3 Crises of Contradiction
4 Deconstructing Crisis?
5 Crises of Extinction, or Gaia in Peril
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
1 Crisis: A Brief Critical History
2 Crises of Exception
3 Crises of Contradiction
4 Deconstructing Crisis?
5 Crises of Extinction, or Gaia in Peril
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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