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"Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a book for anyone who wants their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity. As people come together to mourn the loss of the planet, we have the opportunity to create a grounded, hopeful response. This meaningful hopefulness looks to the new communities created around climate activism. Together, our collective mourning enables us to become human in ways previously unknown. Why Climate Breakdown Matters is a practical guide on how to be a radical, responsible climate activist."--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 0 Introduction: Thinking Through Wittgenstein -- 1 The Philosopher and Temptation: Wittgenstein's Augustinian Opening Move -- 2 "It is as You Please": PI 16 as an Icon of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Freedom -- 3 What is (Wittgenstein's Own Account of) Meaning?: PI 43 and its Critics -- 4 When Wittgenstein Speaks of ' Everyday' Language, he Means Simply Language: A Liberatory Reading of PI 95-124 -- 5 Objects of Comparison to the Real (Philosophical?) Discovery: PI 130-133

"A new agenda for how we can prepare for societal collapse in an age of climate chaos"--

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Editor's introduction -- Wittgenstein, Kuhn, and natural science : science : a perspicuous presentation -- Kuhn : the Wittgenstein of the sciences? -- Kuhn on incommensurability : inhabiting the standard reading -- Wittgenstein on incommensurability : the view from "inside" -- Values : another kind of incommensurability? -- Does Kuhn have a model of science? -- Inter-section : a schematic elicitation of Wittgensteinian criteria -- Wittgenstein, Winch, and "human science" : social science -- The ghost of Winch's ghost -- Psychiatry -- The hard case of (severe cases of) schizophrenia -- Extreme aversive emotions -- Economics -- Wittgenstein contra Friedman -- Cognitive science -- "Dissolving" the hard problem of consciousness back into ordinary life -- Conclusions -- Concluding summary -- Interview with Rupert Read (conducted by the editor) -- Bibliography -- Index

A key development in Wittgenstein Studies over recent years has been the advancement of a resolutely therapeutic reading of the Tractatus . Rupert Read offers the first extended application of this reading of Wittgenstein, encompassing Wittgenstein's later work too, to examine the implications of Wittgenstein's work as a whole upon the domains especially of literature, psychopathology, and time. Read begins by applying Wittgenstein's remarks on meaning to language, examining the consequences our conception of philosophy has for the ways in which we talk about meaning. He go

Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth's climate is changing disastrously, in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or technological innovation. Sooner rather than later this global capitalist system will come to an end, destroyed by its own ecological contradictions. Unless we do something beautiful and unprecedented, the ending of industrial civilisation will take the form of collapse, which could mean a harrowing die-off of billions of people. This book is for those ready to accept the full gravity of the human predicament - and to consider what in the world is to be done. How can humanity mindfully navigate the inevitable descent ahead? Two critical thinkers here remove the rose-tinted glasses of much social and environmental commentary. With unremitting realism and yet defiant positivity, they engage each other in uncomfortable conversations about the end of Empire and what lies beyond

1. Beyond pluralism, monism, relativism, realism, etc. : reassessing Peter Winch -- 2. Winch and linguistic idealism -- 3. Seeing things for themselves : Winch, ethnography, ethnomethodology and social studies -- 4. Winch and conservatism : the question of philosophical quietism.

Die industrielle Zivilisation hat keine Zukunft. Sie basiert grundsätzlich auf unbegrenztem Wachstum - auf einem begrenzten Planeten. Die unverminderte, rücksichtslose Verbrennung von fossilen Rohstoffen heizt das Klima weiter an. Durch kleinteilige Reformen und technologische Innovationen, wie sie gegenwärtig auf der politischen Agenda stehen, wird sich das Problem aber nicht in den Griff bekommen lassen. Eher früher als später wird, so die These, das globale kapitalistische System sein Ende finden, zerstört aufgrund der von ihm selbst hervorgebrachten ökologischen Widersprüche. Wenn die Menschheit nicht - nach heutigem Stand - völlig unerwartete - radikale Schritte unternimmt, wird der Zusammenbruch der Industriegesellschaft, wie wir sie kennen, in ein Desaster münden. Der britische Philosoph Rupert Read und der australische Nachhaltigkeitsforscher Samuel Alexander versuchen in diesem Gesprächsbuch der wahrscheinlichen Entwicklung ungeschönt ins Auge zu blicken. (Verlagstext)