Ben Ware Livres

Focusing on the intersection of modernism and ethics, Ben Ware presents a reassessment that highlights the relevance of modernist literature and philosophy to contemporary social struggles. He explores the ethical perspectives of notable thinkers like Wittgenstein, Beckett, and Marx, illustrating how their ideas inform critical issues such as utopia, critique, and political love. This study aims to redefine the parameters of modernist discourse, making a significant contribution to ongoing debates about ethics and politics in the modernist context.

"This path-breaking book by one of the sharpest minds in contemporary philosophy will live on for a very long time." —Dany Nobus, author of Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason Philosophy at the end of the world On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face ‘the end of all things’, Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching. In fact, extinction is the very lens through which we should examine our current reality. Radical politics today should not be concerned with merely averting the worst but rather with beginning again at the end. To think about the future in this way is itself a form of liberation that might incubate the necessary radical solutions we need. Combining lessons from Kant, Hegel, Adorno, and Lacan, as well as drawing on popular culture and ecology, Ware recasts the most urgent issue of our times and resolves that we can only consider our collective end by treating it as a starting point.

The latest book in a series that seeks to illuminate Francis Bacon's art and motivations and open up fresh and stimulating ways of understanding his paintings.