scholarly journals El horizonte del sol poniente. Una reflexión histórico-crítica sobre el Camino de Santiago / The Horizon of the Setting Sun. A historical-Critical Reflection on the St. James' Way

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Fernando DOMÍNGUEZ REBOIRAS
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Camino De Santiago ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Miraculous Healing

One of the most remarkable features of the St. James’ Way in its heyday (12th to 15th centuries) was, no doubt, the consideration of St. James’ grave as the border of the Christian boundaries and cosmos. Compostela was the shrine at the end of the world; it marked the Western limit of the Christendom, i.e., Rome’s domains towards the setting sun. This constituted its strategic privilege and was the main source of its meaning: A way towards the end but with the willingness to start afresh. The Jacobean pilgrim did not look for any miraculous healing, but he longed for a renewed comeback to his ordinary life after he had put his life at risk and made that unique effort of experiencing the boundaries of the earth and the last skyline.

Slavery and the Trumpocene: It's Not the End of the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Claire Colebrook
Keyword(s):  
Living System ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Geological Period

There is something more catastrophic than the end of the world, especially when ‘world’ is understood as the horizon of meaning and expectation that has composed the West. If the Anthropocene is the geological period marking the point at which the earth as a living system has been altered by ‘anthropos,’ the Trumpocene marks the twenty-first-century recognition that the destruction of the planet has occurred by way of racial violence, slavery and annihilation. Rather than saving the world, recognizing the Trumpocene demands that we think about destroying the barbarism that has marked the earth.

Kehancuran Alam Semesta dalam Al-Qur'an Perspektif Kosmologi

SUHUF ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-94
Author(s):  
Efa Ida Amalia
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Total Destruction ◽  
The World ◽  
Expansion Of The Universe ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
The Universe

The purpose of this research is to know about the process and the steps of the destruction of the Universe (kiamat) in the Qur'an. This phenomenon will be explained through cosmological perspective. Al-Qur'an mentions the phenomenon of the end of the world (universe) or (kiamat) in many verses for more than 700 times. Therefore, human beings are supposed to be able to “read” the phenomenon of the universe.   According to the Qur'an, destruction is divided into two categories: the first is total destruction of the universe and the second is the day of resurrection. The first one is the final destruction of the universe known as the doomsday. At this stage, the expansion of the universe is ceased and leaves the contraction space caused by gravitation. As the  result, all things are more closed to others and destruction cannot be avoided. The second destruction is the destruction of the earth which is caused by human beings attitude

To See the Earth Before the End of the World

Callaloo ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 638-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Roberson
Keyword(s):  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World

scholarly journals Looking to Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest to Find Ways to Respond to the Dilemmas of the Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melina Pereira Savi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World

In The Word for World is Forest (1972), Ursula K. Le Guin imagines a dystopian future where humans (Terrans) are faced with the task of plundering other planets for the resource they have caused the earth to be depleted of: wood. On planet Athshe, Terrans find dense forests and a peaceful population of humans, and are quick to reproduce practices founded in the dualistic logic that sets humans (culture) against nature. These practices and depictions of the earth resonate with the dilemmas of the Anthropocene, the “age of humans,” where loss in biodiversity, climate change, massive deforestation, among other things are sounding an alarm that many associate with the end of the world as we know it. Athsheans, as I demonstrate in this paper, put up a resistance to Terran practices that are grounded not in violence (although they unwillingly apply it) but in holding fast to a worldview that is nondualist and dream-based that can serve to inform us in resisting the logic that has led us to the Anthropocene in the first place.

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