How to Survive the Apocalypse
Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World
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The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse - cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios - in contemporary entertainment.
In How to Survive the Apocalypse, Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories - from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead - and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about us here and now, about how we conceive of our life together, including some of our deepest tensions and anxieties.
Besides analyzing the dystopian shift in popular culture, Joustra and Wilkinson also suggest how Christians can live faithfully and with integrity in such a cultural context.
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Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a marvelously lucid definition of existentialism and a brilliant interpretation of its impact.
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- By A. Antine on 07-28-22
By: William Barrett
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Atheism for Dummies
- By: Dale McGowan PhD
- Narrated by: Paul Mantell
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
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Atheism For Dummies offers a brief history of atheist philosophy and its evolution, explores it as a historical and cultural movement, covers important historical writings on the subject, and discusses the nature of ethics and morality in the absence of religion. A simple, yet intelligent exploration of an often misunderstood philosophy.
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Great topic...irritating narrator
- By Duke Playbent on 10-26-14
By: Dale McGowan PhD
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The Reason for God
- Belief in an Age of Skepticism
- By: Timothy Keller
- Narrated by: Timothy Keller
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Best seller lists are filled with doubters. But what happens when you actually doubt your doubts? Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion.
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Unrivaled Apologetics
- By Daniel on 05-01-13
By: Timothy Keller
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On Freedom
- Four Songs of Care and Constraint
- By: Maggie Nelson
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
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Just great
- By Kristi Strong on 12-14-21
By: Maggie Nelson
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Between Past and Future
- Eight Exercises in Political Thought
- By: Hannah Arendt
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Hannah Arendt's insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future, Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future.
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Just stunning
- By Peter Stephens on 02-26-18
By: Hannah Arendt
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The Wisdom Pattern
- Order, Disorder, Reorder
- By: Richard Rohr O.F.M.
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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A universal pattern can be found in all societies and in fact in all of creation. We see it in the seasons of the year; the stories of Scripture; the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus; the rise and fall of civilizations; and even in our own lives. In this new version of one of his earlier books, Father Richard Rohr illuminates the way understanding and embracing this pattern can give us hope in difficult times and the courage to push through messiness and even great chaos to find a new way of being in the world.
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For those who question what they have believed…
- By Jim H. on 06-15-21
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Last Call for Liberty
- How America's Genius for Freedom Has Become Its Greatest Threat
- By: Os Guinness
- Narrated by: Os Guinness
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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The hour is critical. The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Conflicts, hostility, and incivility now threaten to tear the country apart. Competing visions have led to a dangerous moment of cultural self-destruction. This is no longer politics as usual, but an era of political warfare where our enemies are not foreign adversaries, but our fellow citizens. Yet the roots of the crisis are deeper than many realize. Os Guinness argues that we face a fundamental crisis of freedom, as America's genius for freedom has become her Achilles' heel.
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Thought Provoking Work On Liberty In America
- By Ezekiel on 05-28-19
By: Os Guinness
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Rings of Fire
- Walking in Faith Through a Volcanic Future
- By: Leonard Sweet, Mark Chironna - contributor
- Narrated by: Jon Gauger
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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If you follow the works of best-selling authors Malcolm Gladwell, Faith Popcorn, Daniel Pink, and other trend forecasters, you’ll appreciate learning about over 25 rings of fire that lie ahead for Christians around the world. Len Sweet once again maps the future for the church in this sweeping survey of the 21st century. In the face of eruptive and disruptive culture changes from economics and communications to bioethics and beyond, how do we fight fire with fire, not only catching up to our culture but leading our friends and neighbors toward the feet of Christ?
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A prophetic, food for thought book.
- By SDT on 07-27-22
By: Leonard Sweet, and others
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The Year of Our Lord 1943
- Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
- By: Alan Jacobs
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear the Allies would win the Second World War. Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic thought the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not culturally or morally prepared for their success. These Christian intellectuals - Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil, among others - sought both to articulate a sober and reflective critique of their own culture and to outline a plan for the moral and spiritual regeneration of their countries in the post-war world.
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The Audible is a Train Wreck
- By John on 09-04-18
By: Alan Jacobs
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Stories We Tell Ourselves
- Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
- By: Richard Holloway
- Narrated by: Richard Holloway
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are.
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Effortlessly profound
- By Consi on 09-28-21
By: Richard Holloway
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- Adam Shields
- 09-19-17
Media teaches us about what it means human
After my recent Great Course exploration of modern Philosophy I decided to pick up How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Faith and Politics at the End of the World.
I also subscribe to an online magazine, Christ and Pop culture, Alissa Wilkinson used to write for. (She is now a writer for Vox and a professor at King's College in NYC after having been the main film reviewer for Christianity Today.) The title may not really describe it well, but this a perfect example of why the magazine Christ and Pop Culture exists.
Christianity can sometimes ignore the importance of stories, in spite of the fact that Jesus (and the bible) seem to have primarily taught through stories. The Great Courses lecture on modern philosophy was occationally hard to track because it did not ground the philosophy enough in experiential examples so that the listener could understand why a particular philosophical idea mattered.
Wilkinson and her co-writer Robert Joustra have grounded their discussion of philosophy in the recent TV and movie obsession with the apocalypse and dystopian stories. Long explorations of Battlestar Galactica, the Walking Dead, Mad Men, Breaking Bad and a number of other shows give context to philosophy so that the reader can understand not only the philosophy being explored but also can understand how good media criticism can give insights into the stories in a way that isn’t possible with just casual watching.
While there is far more than just Charles Taylor’s philosophy explored here, it was the Charles Taylor that I was most interested in. I have read James KA Smith’s How (Not) to Be Secular, which is also an exploration of Charles Taylor. I think both books are helpful and there is surprisingly little overlap in content because they come at Taylor’s work in such different ways.
There is no way to really fully describe How to Survive the Apocalypse because it is a very wide ranging book. But I do want to note that you don’t have to have watched all the movies or TV shows to get something out of the book. I was reluctant to pick it up because other than Battlestar Galactica and reading the first four books of Game of Thrones, I have not seen hardly any of the TV shows or movies being discussed. But I had a basic idea of the story of most of them. And there is enough background in the discussion to keep me engaged even if I have not seen what is being discussed.
This is a book that I need to read again. I listened to the audiobook, which was well done by Gabrielle de Cuir (she has narrated a number of Orson Scott Card’s books). But this is philosophy, so a second run at the content in print I think will be helpful.
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- Malcolm
- 06-18-17
Smart and Witty
Would you listen to How to Survive the Apocalypse again? Why?
Yes. The book is smart, fun, and witty!
Who was your favorite character and why?
The book does not have "characters" per se.
Which character – as performed by Gabrielle de Cuir – was your favorite?
The narrator, Gabrielle de Cuir, did an amazing job. Perfect inflection!
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
It would make a nice documentary. Fun and fast-moving story.
Any additional comments?
An unexpected combination of cultural and religious themes. Fun and thoughtful.
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- Melissa Wilson
- 07-02-22
A lot of information
It took me awhile to finish it. it's over 6 hours long, so multiple playings was what it took for me.
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- LaPazBC
- 07-08-17
Hard to understand
What do you think your next listen will be?
something lighter
Any additional comments?
I’ve been studying the Bible for many years, however, this is kind of a wordy book - It was a little hard to understand where is going or where does the author stand. Honestly I didn’t finish the book. Its seems to be introducing the subject for a long time… If a book doesn’t arrest my attention in the first three chapters it makes me wonder if I should continue reading…
The narrator has an amazingly beautiful voice, knowledgeable tone, but the way it was narrated made me think its a difficult subject to understand…
I received this audio-book free for an honest review by the author, narrator, or publisher. Thank you!
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- Susan Patterson
- 06-15-17
Too wordy
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
No, 21 min. of my life I'll never get back.
What was most disappointing about Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson ’s story?
So many words, so little sense.
Would you listen to another book narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir?
Yes, good diction and cadence.
Did How to Survive the Apocalypse inspire you to do anything?
Cherish my own religion more.
Any additional comments?
"I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review”.
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