Christopher Dole, Robert Hayashi, Andrew Poe, Austin Sarat

The Time of Catastrophe (eBook, ePUB)

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Age of Catastrophe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

If catastrophes are, by definition, exceptional events of such magnitude that worlds and lives are dramatically overturned, the question of timing would pose a seemingly straightforward, if not redundant question. The Time of Catastrophe demonstrates the analytic productiveness of this question, arguing that there is much to be gained by interrogating the temporal conceits of conventional understandings of catastrophe and the catastrophic. Bringing together a distinguished, interdisciplinary group of scholars, the book develops a critical language for examining 'catastrophic time', recognizing the central importance of, and offering a set of frameworks for, examining the alluring and elusive qualities of catastrophe. Framed around the ideas of Agamben, Kant and Benjamin, and drawing on philosophy, history, law, political science, anthropology and the arts, this volume seeks to demonstrate how the question of 'catastrophic time' is in fact a question about something much more than the frequency of disasters in our so-called 'Age of Catastrophe'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317013860
• Artikelnr.: 44863947

Autorenporträt

Christopher Dole is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College, USA. Robert Hayashi is Associate Professor American Studies at Amherst College, USA. Andrew Poe is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, USA. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Amherst College, USA. Boris Wolfson is Associate Professor of Russian at Amherst College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

When is catastrophe?: an introduction
Christopher Dole
Robert Hayashi
Andrew Poe
Austin Sarat and Boris Wolfson; Catastrophe's apocalypse
Joseph Masco; Law and community in Fritz Lang's M.
BBC's Luther: permanent catastrophe?
Elizabeth Stewart; Photographs of catastrophe and the representation of vulnerable humanity
Carolyn J. Dean; Catastrophe and human order: from political theology to political physiology
David W. Bates; Disaster
ruin
and permanent catastrophe
Lewis R. Gordon; Index.