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Contaminations : beyond dialectics in modern literature, science and film /
This book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity. It examines how works of literature and cinema have contaminated constructions of the pure and the immune with their purport...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Climate Change and the Contamination of the Anthropocene
- 1 Contaminating Psychology with Biology: Descartes, Spinoza, Freud and Žižek
- 2 Contaminating the Visible with the Invisible: From Einstein via H.G. Wells to Hannah Arendt, Luhmannand Derrida
- 3 Contamination of Nature with Society: The Collapse of Natural Order from Melville to Wells and Ellison
- 4 Contaminating Judgement with its Suspension: Guilt and Punishment in Walter Benjamin, Herman Melville and Henry James
- 5 Contaminating the Digital: Action and Perception in Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock
- 6 Contaminating the Sacred with the Profane: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Biopolitics
- 7 Contaminating Posthumanism
- Bibliography
- Index