Jean-Luc Nancy

After Fukushima (eBook, PDF)

The Equivalence of Catastrophes

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes in the era of globalization and technology. Can a catastrophe be an isolated occurrence? Is there such a thing as a GCGBPnaturalGC catastrophe when all of our technologiesGConuclear energy, power supply, water supplyGCoare necessarily implicated, drawing together the biological, social, economic, and political? Nancy examines these questions and more. Exclusive to this English edition are two interviews with Nancy conducted by Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Yuji Nishiyama and Yotetsu Tonaki.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823263417
• Artikelnr.: 44776952

Autorenporträt

Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Strasbourg and one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century's foremost thinkers of politics, art, and the body. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence. His book The Intruder was adapted into an acclaimed film by Claire Denis.