Destiny domesticated : the rebirth of tragedy out of the spirit of technology / Jos de Mul ; with translation assistance from Bibi van den Berg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mul, Jos de, 1956-

Contributor:

Berg, Bibi van den.

Standardized Title:

Domesticatie van het noodlot. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fate and fatalism--History.

Fate and fatalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"An analysis of contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue""; ""When Fate Knocks""; ""Europe�The Tragic Continent""; ""Prometheus Bound""; ""Fatal Signs""; ""1. Destiny Domesticated""; ""The Bijlmer Plane Crash""; ""Necessity and Chance""; ""Tragic, Christian, and Modern Providence""; ""Living with Fate""; ""2. Chance Living""; ""“Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here?�""; ""Accidental and Contingent Chance""; ""Uncontrollable Fate""; ""The Fragility of Happiness""; ""3. Fatal Politics""; ""Between Athens and Jerusalem""; ""The Birth of Tragedy""; ""From Antigone to Hirsi Ali""

""Sublime Suffering""""4. The (Non-)Reproducibility of the Tragic""; ""The Death of Tragedy""; ""Christian and Modern “Elimination� of the Tragic""; ""The (Post)Modern Resurrection of the Tragic""; ""Tragic Repetition with a Difference""; ""5. The Art of Suffering""; ""The Sadist Universe""; ""Fear, Pity, Catharsis""; ""Sublimating the Sublime""; ""The Lust of Suffering""; ""6. Awesome Technologies""; ""Ode to Man""; ""Technological Ambivalence""; ""Affirmation beyond Optimism and Pessimism""; ""Tragic Technologies""; ""7. Tragic Parenthood""; ""The Savanna Case""; ""Medea�s Daimon""

""The Schizophrenia of the Modern Concept of Man""""Inevitable Blame""; ""8. Fateful Machines""; ""The Morality of “Our� Computers""; ""Relativizing Ethics""; ""Acting Machines""; ""The Tragic Ethics of the Cyborg""; ""9. Exodus""; ""The Rebirth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Technology""; ""Prometheus Unbound""; ""Between Satyr and Cyborg""; ""The Possibility of an Island""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Name Index""; ""Subject Index""

Notes:

"Originally published as De domesticatie van het noodlot : de wedergeboorte van de tragedie uit de geest van de technologie c2006 Klement & Pelckmans."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438449739

1438449739

OCLC:

869735729