How to think about catastrophe: toward a theory of enlightened doomsaying

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. Edited by M. B. DeBevoise & Mark Rogin Anspach (2022)
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How to Think about Catastrophe argues that "only by making good use of [its ethical] faculty can humanity hope to curb its power over things and over itself--a power that is excessive and, above all, destructive."

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