The essays selected by the editors to explore these apocalyptic visions are: The Remaking of Zero: Beginning at the End, by Gary K. Wolfe; The Lone Survivor, by Robert Plank; Ambiguous Apocalypse: Transcendental Versions of the End, by Robert Galbreath; World s End: The Imagination of Catastrophe, by W. Warren Wagar; Man-Made Catastrophes, by Brian Stableford; and The Rebellion of Nature, by W. Warren Wagar.Wolfe sees in these postholocaust narratives a central attraction the mythic power inherent in the very conception of a remade world. This power derives from three sources: the emergence of a new order from the ashes of the old system, and thus a kind of denial of death; the reinforcement of one set of values as opposed to another; and as something always replaces whatever was destroyed, a promise that nothing can annihilate humanity."
- ISBN10 0809310333
- ISBN13 9780809310333
- Publish Date 1 July 1983
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 204
- Language English