Human extinction and the pandemic imaginary / / Christos Lynteris.
"This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the 'next pandemic' and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation of what it means to be human. Nested in debates among anthropologists, philosophers, social theorist...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Routledge studies in anthropology |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2020. |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Routledge studies in anthropology.
|
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 177 pages). |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the end of mastery
- 1 The end of the world as we do not know it
- 2 Zoonotic transformations
- 3 Anthropogenesis reversed
- 4 The epidemiologist as culture hero
- 5 The post-pandemic condition
- Conclusion: catastrophism beyond closure
- Bibliography
- Index.