Waste : a philosophy of things /

"Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard is far from new -- it is integral to how we make, build and describe our lived environment. As this wide-ranging new study reveals, waste has been a polarizing topic for millen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Viney, William
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Temas:
Refuse and refuse disposal > Philosophy.
Antiquities > Philosophy.
Ruins in literature.
Waste (Economics) in literature.
Déchets > Élimination > Philosophie.
Ruines dans la littérature.
Gaspillage dans la littérature.
Philosophy of science.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Avfallshantering > etik och moral.
Avfallshantering > teori, filosofi.
Avfallshantering > psykologiska aspekter.
Arkeologi i litteraturen.
Ruiner i litteraturen.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I: Collecting Waste
  • 2. Narrating the Event of Waste
  • 3. Archaeologies of Waste
  • Part II: Writing Waste
  • 4. The Poetic Economies of T.S. Eliot
  • 5. Reading Joycean Disjecta
  • Part III: Building Ruins
  • 6. Ruins Past
  • 7. Ruins of the Future
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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