Title & Author:

Catastrophes : a history and theory of an operative concept / edited by Nitzan Lebovic and Andreas Killen.

Publication:

Oldenbourg : De Gruyter, [2014]

Description:

200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The Storyteller and the Seismograph / Deborah Coen Coen, Deborah 15 -- Unity, Plasticity, Catastrophe: Order and Pathology in the Cybernetic Era / David Bates Bates, David 32 -- The Last Man: The Birth of Modern Apocalypse in Jean Paul, John Martin, and Lord Byron / Eva Horn Horn, Eva 55 -- Accidents happen: The Industrial Accident in Interwar Germany / Andreas Killen Killen, Andreas 75 -- German Jewish Judges and the Permanent State of Catastrophe / Nitzan Lebovic Lebovic, Nitzan 93 -- Ending Time and again in Ruins: Catastrophe and its Discontents in Jewish Theology / Martin Kavka Kavka, Martin 111 -- The Obscenity of Objectivity: Post-Holocaust Anti-Semitism and the Invention-Discovery of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder / Dagmar Herzog Herzog, Dagmar 128 -- Kata and/or Streiphen?: Climate Change and the Politics of Catastrophe / Alyssa Battistoni Battistoni, Alyssa 156 -- Anticipating the Climate Catastrophe / Matthias Dörries Dörries, Matthias 181.

Summary:

Catastrophic scenarios dominate 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 different catastrophes and their aftermath. The emphasis is on the need to distance this process of reconsideration from previous teleological representations of catastrophes as an endpoint, and to begin considering their "operative" aspects, which unmask the nature of social and political structures. Among the essays in this volume are analyses, by leading scholars in their respective fields, concerning the role of catastrophes in theology, in the history of industrial accidents, in theory of history, in the history of law, in "catastrophe films", in the history of cybernetics, in post-Holocaust discussions of reparations, and in climate change.

Resources:
Dawsonera
Table of contents
Inhaltstext
01

ISBN:

9783110312492
3110312492
9783110312584 (e-book)
3110312581 (e-book)
(print + online)
9783110312591
311031259X

Subject:

Disasters History.
Disasters Social aspects.
Catastrophes Histoire.
Catastrophes Aspect social.
Disasters
Katastrophe
Diskurs
Historiography

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Lebovic, Nitzan, 1970-
Killen, Andreas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294395
Call No.: BIB 239947
Status: Available

Location: Library main 294624
Call No.: BIB 239947
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available