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The fanaticism of the apocalypse : save the Earth, punish human beings / Pascal Bruckner ; translated by Steven Rendall.
- Title
- The fanaticism of the apocalypse : save the Earth, punish human beings / Pascal Bruckner ; translated by Steven Rendall.
- Author
- Bruckner, Pascal,
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, [2013]
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- Additional Authors
- Rendall, Steven
- Description
- 204 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to 'save the planet' and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground. Modern society's susceptibility to this kind of thinking derives from what Bruckner calls "the seductive attraction of disaster," as exemplified by the popular appeal of disaster movies. But ecological catastrophism is harmful in that it draws attention away from other, more solvable problems and injustices in the world in order to focus on something that is portrayed as an Apocalypse. Rather than preaching catastrophe and pessimism, we need to develop a democratic and generous ecology that addresses specific problems in a practical way. --Publisher description.
- Uniform Title
- Fanaticisme de l'apocalypse. English
- Alternative Title
- Fanaticisme de l'apocalypse.
- Subject
- Note
- First published in French as Le fanaticisme de l'apocalypse, Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2011.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : the return of original sin -- pt. I. The seductive attraction of disaster. Give me back my enemy -- Have the courage to be afraid -- Blackmailing future generations -- pt. II. Progressives against progress. The last avatar of Prometheus? -- Nature, a cruel stepmother or a victim? -- Science in the age of suspicion -- pt. III. The great ascetic regression. Humanity on a strict diet -- The poverty of maceration -- The noble savage in the Lucerne -- Epilogue : the remedy is found in the disease.
- ISBN
- 9780745669762
- 074566976X
- OCLC
- 822891889
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library