The catastrophic imperative : subjectivity, time and memory in contemporary thought / edited by Dominiek Hoens, Sigi Jöttkandt and Gert Buelens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoens, Dominiek.

Jottkandt, Sigi, 1965-

Buelens, Gert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subjectivity.

Thought and thinking.

Disasters.

Physical Description:

ix, 292 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

"Evoking the contemporary Zeitgeist of looming ecological, political and economic disaster, a distinguished group of thinkers invite a compelling reconsideration of the ways we, as representing subjects, might be more deeply implicated in catastrophic events than we ordinarily imagine"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations * Notes On Contributors * Introduction: B.Biebuyck, G.Buelens, O.de Graef, D.Hoens, S.Jttkandt * Who or What Decides: For Derrida: A Catastrophic Theory of Decision

J.Hillis Miller * Catastrophic Narratives and Why the Catastrophe to Catastrophe Might Have Already Happened

E.Vogt * Breath of Relief: Sloterdijk and the Politics of the Intimate

S.van Tuinen * Man is a swarm animal

J.Clemens * Notes on the Bird War: Biopolitics of the Visible (in the Era of Climate Change)

T.Cohen * Dialectical Catastrophe: Hegels Allegory of Physiognomy and the Ethics of Survival

P.Moll * Catastrophe, Citationality and the Limits of Responsibility in Disgrace

G.Buelens * Unpredictable Inevitability and the Boundaries of Psychic Life; D.Nobus * Who is Nietzsche?

A.Badiou * Is Pleasure a Rotten Idea?

A.Schuster * Nationalist Ext(im)asy: Maurice Barrs and the Roots of Fascist Enjoyment

G.Chaitin * Topography of the Border: Derrida Rewriting Transcendental Aesthetics

J.Hodge * Index List of illustrations * Notes On Contributors * Introduction: B.Biebuyck, G.Buelens, O.de Graef, D.Hoens, S.Jttkandt * Who or What Decides: For Derrida: A Catastrophic Theory of Decision

J.Hodge * Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230552852

0230552854

OCLC:

290433058