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Catastrophes : a History and Theory of an Operative Concept /
Catastrophic scenarios control our contemporary mindset. Catastrophic events and predictions have spurred new interest in re-examining the history of earlier disasters and the social and conceptual resources they have mobilized. The essays gathered in this volume reconsider the history and theory of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2014.
Ã2014 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; The Storyteller and the Seismograph; Unity, Plasticity, Catastrophe: Order and Pathology in the Cybernetic Era; The Last Man: The Birth of Modern Apocalypse in Jean Paul, John Martin, and Lord Byron; Accidents happen: The Industrial Accident in Interwar Germany; German Jewish Judges and the Permanent State of Catastrophe; Ending Time and again in Ruins: Catastrophe and its Discontents in Jewish Theology; The Obscenity of Objectivity: Post-Holocaust Anti-Semitism and the Invention-Discovery of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
- Kata and/or Streiphen?: Climate Change and the Politics of CatastropheAnticipating the Climate Catastrophe; The Authors.