Apocalypse Theory And The Ends Of The World
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Apocalypse Theory And The Ends Of The World
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Author : Malcolm Bull
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Apocalypse Theory And The Ends Of The World written by Malcolm Bull and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
In this volume, leading historians, critics and theorists review three thousand years of apocalyptic thought. Tracing the history of millenarianism from ancient times to the present day, they investigate the modern and postmodern debates in which apocalyptic themes are recirculated. From Zoroaster to Derrida, thinkers have used the dramatic language of apocalyptic to uncover the ends of the world - exploring the relationship between ends as purposes and ends as terminations, and the connections between religious and secular versions of apocalyptic theory. In the resulting interplay of closure and disclosure, they have sought to find purpose to life, and a conclusion to history. As the millennium draws to a close, questions about the end of the world seem increasingly urgent. This volume is a guide to these bewildering questions and discourses of the limit. It will be of interest to anyone participating in contemporary debates in cultural studies, religious studies, literary theory, postmodernist philosophy and history.
Apocalypse Theory And The Ends Of The World
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Author : Malcolm Bull
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1995
Apocalypse Theory And The Ends Of The World written by Malcolm Bull and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Philosophy categories.
In this volume, leading historians, critics and theorists review 3,000 years of apocalyptic theory. Tracing the history of millenarianism, they investigate the modern and postmodern debates. (Philosophy)
Ideas Of Apocalypse And Conspiracy Theory In Contemporary Cinema
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Author : Lea Weller
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2013-11-12
Ideas Of Apocalypse And Conspiracy Theory In Contemporary Cinema written by Lea Weller and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Social Science categories.
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, grade: A, University of Derby, course: BA in Sociology and Film and Television Studies, language: English, abstract: The definition of apocalypse described by Burgess and Nur (2008) is “The battle at the end of the world, as described in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. Sometimes also used to describe any religiously charged major societal upheaval” (Burgess and Nur, 2008). This essay will investigate this definition and see if it fits contemporary beliefs. Ideas of the apocalypse have fascinated the public throughout history. Every society has different ideas or predictions about a global cataclysm that will end the world. The end was once interpreted as a supernatural event in which the Earth would be purified by a Deity or divine God. Scientific beliefs about a natural cataclysmic event that will end the world compete with religious theories. During the investigation of Roland Emmerich’s film of 2009, 2012, Solar flares, pole shifts, Earth crust displacement, the Rapture, the Mayan Calendar, the Hopis all give detailed accounts of how the Earth will be destroyed. 2012 shows the conflicting ideas of contemporary society; and this essay will show the various theories and how they act as a guide for surviving the end of the world. The theme of conspiracy theory is also extremely evident throughout society today and these theories are exposed in 2012.
War In Heaven Heaven On Earth
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Author : Stephen D. O'Leary
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-18
War In Heaven Heaven On Earth written by Stephen D. O'Leary and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Religion categories.
The apocalypse is a motif that lies behind many religious beliefs and practices. 'War in Heaven/Heaven on Earth' theorizes the apocalyptic as it has arisen in a variety of religious traditions, from Native American religion to Islam in Northern Nigeria and new terrorist movements. Millennial theory and history are explored from the perspective of social psychology, sociology and post-modern philosophy. The volume is unique in applying an analysis of millennial themes to a comparative study of religion.
Postmodern Apocalypse
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Author : Richard Dellamora
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1995
Postmodern Apocalypse written by Richard Dellamora and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Art categories.
From accounts of the Holocaust, to representations of AIDS, to predictions of environmental disaster; from Hal Lindsey's fundamentalist 1970s bestseller The Late Great Planet Earth, to Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, the sense of apocalypse is very much with us. In Postmodern Apocalypse, Richard Dellamora and his contributors examine apocalypse in works by late twentieth-century writers, filmmakers, and critics.
Apocalyptic Bodies
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Author : Tina Pippin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-03-11
Apocalyptic Bodies written by Tina Pippin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-11 with History categories.
Apocalyptic Bodies traces the biblical notions of the end of the world as represented in ancient and modern texts, art, music and popular culture, for example the paintings of Bosch. Tina Pippin addresses the question of how far we, in the late twentieth century, are capable of reading and responding to the 'signs of the times'. It will appeal not only to those studying religion, but also to those fascinated with interpretations of the end of the world.
Theory For The World To Come
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Author : Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Theory For The World To Come written by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future? The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events, but imagining how looming disasters will coincide is simultaneously necessary and impossible. Drawing on speculative fiction and social theory, Theory for the World to Come is the beginning of a conversation about theories that move beyond nihilistic conceptions of the capitalism-caused Anthropocene and toward generative bodies of thought that provoke creative ways of thinking about the world ahead. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on such authors as Kim Stanley Robinson and Octavia Butler, and engages with afrofuturism, indigenous speculative fiction, and films from the 1970s and ’80s to help think differently about the future and its possibilities. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
The End Of The World In Medieval Thought And Spirituality
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Author : Eric Knibbs
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-27
The End Of The World In Medieval Thought And Spirituality written by Eric Knibbs and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on “Gendering the Apocalypse,” devoted to the texts and contexts of the apocalyptic through the lens of gender. A second section of essays studies the more traditional problem of “Apocalyptic Theory and Exegesis,” with a focus on authors such as Augustine of Hippo and Joachim of Fiore. A final series of essays extends the thematic scope to “The Eschaton in Political, Liturgical, and Literary Contexts.” In these essays, scholars of history, theology, and literature create a dialogue that considers how fear of the end of the world, among the most pervasive emotions in human experience, underlies a great part of Western cultural production.
Apocalypse Cinema
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Author : Peter Szendy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Apocalypse Cinema written by Peter Szendy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Art categories.
Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runner, and Twelve Monkeys, this book suggests that in the apocalyptic genre, film gnaws at its own limit. Apocalypse-cinema is, at the same time and with the same double blow, the end of the world and the end of the film. It is the consummation and the (self-)consumption of cinema, in the form of an acinema that Lyotard evoked as the nihilistic horizon of filmic economy. The innumerable countdowns, dazzling radiations, freeze-overs, and seismic cracks and crevices are but other names and pretexts for staging film itself, with its economy of time and its rewinds, its overexposed images and fades to white, its freeze-frames and digital touch-ups. The apocalyptic genre is not just one genre among others: It plays with the very conditions of possibility of cinema. And it bears witness to the fact that, every time, in each and every film, what Jean-Luc Nancy called the cine-world is exposed on the verge of disappearing. In a Postface specially written for the English edition, Szendy extends his argument into a debate with speculative materialism. Apocalypse-cinema, he argues, announces itself as cinders that question the "ultratestimonial" structure of the filmic gaze. The cine-eye, he argues, eludes the correlationism and anthropomorphic structure that speculative materialists have placed under critique, allowing only the ashes it bears to be heard.
How To Live In A Post Apocalyptic World
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Author : Siobhan Theresa White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
How To Live In A Post Apocalyptic World written by Siobhan Theresa White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
This project began out of curiosity about why our culture is so obsessed with apocalyptic predictions. Through the course of the project, the obsession is explored, leading to the conclusion that we are currently living in a post-apocalyptic world, that we have managed to exist with a cultural repression of the memory of the apocalyptic events of World War II, and that we seem to be surviving, though not without psychological trauma. The exploration here will begin in the foundation for all apocalyptic imagery, the Bible. It will look at how the word was defined in the Christian milieu and how that definition was disseminated throughout Western culture with the spread of Christianity. Then, we will move to more recent examples to look at how the postmodern and post-human theories are represented in Western theatre, specifically in the work Samuel Beckett and Marie Clements. Next, the specifically American obsession with nuclear and atomic weaponry will reveal how this apocalyptic tenor of Western culture was invented and perpetuated by the United States' role in inventing the atomic bomb during World War II. From there, the exploration will focus on the America West, specifically California, by looking at the fiction of Thomas Pynchon and Nathanael West as representations of the disintegration of culture in face of the repressed trauma of the apocalypse. Finally, continuing the idea of the American West as particularly apocalyptic, an analysis of the roles Hollywood and the Golden Gate bridge play in representing the trauma and repression of the post-apocalyptic will reveal the fragmentation and disenfranchisement that plagues our cultural psyche. The culmination of the project finds more questions to be answered and more symptoms to be diagnosed, but irrevocably reveals that our culture lives in repression, with trauma, with endless anxiety and despair. The project attempt to allay some of the fears of impending apocalypse by suggesting that the catastrophic event we fear is actually behind us and failing to recognize or account for this in our lives will result in a failure to truly understand the world we live in. This failure will only result in further fragmentation, anxiety, despair, and misunderstanding. The quote from T.S. Eliot in the epigraph illustrates the result of this failure: an endless repetition of apocalypses until exhaustion and despair consumes us all. Once we recognize that we are only living in the most recent apocalypse and there is sure to be another, some of the fear and anxiety will be relieved.