{"product_id":"9781788739993","title":"On Extinction","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow to think about the end of the world and what we must do to rebuild beyond that final moment, for readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Mushroom at the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and \u003ci\u003eExtinction: A Radical History \u003c\/i\u003eby Ashley Dawson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat are we to think as we facing the sixth extinction moment? Kant's invitation to imagine an 'end of all things' no longer feels like just a thought experiment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilosopher Ben Ware argues that we must accept this without looking away. In fact, extinction is the very lens through which we see our current reality. He argues that in order to map the catastrophic present, we will first need to take a tiger's leap into the past in order to construct a new 'dialectics of extinctions'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Extinction \u003c\/i\u003etakes us on a breath-taking philosophical journey. Bringing dialectical thought to bear on one of the most pressing issues of our times, Ware argues that radical politics today should not be concerned with merely \u003ci\u003eaverting the worst\u003c\/i\u003e, but rather with \u003ci\u003ebeginning again at the end\u003c\/i\u003e: bringing to completion a mode of political and economic life which tethers us all–the yet to be born–to a sick but undying present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo think about the future in this way is itself a form of liberation that might incubate the necessary radical solutions we need.","brand":"Ben Ware","offers":[{"title":"Verso Books |  Hardback  |  2024-03-26","offer_id":44663266050303,"sku":"9781788739993","price":33.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_943f3cc1-daac-4704-89cb-32f7a3a3eeb0.jpg?v=1704533294","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781788739993","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}