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A short treatise on the metaphysics of tsunamis / Jean-Pierre Dupuy ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dupuy, Jean-Pierre.
- Series:
- Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
- Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
- Standardized Title:
- Petit métaphysique des tsunamis. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters--Philosophy.
- Disasters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (92 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1755 the city of Lisbon was destroyed by a terrible earthquake. Almost 250 years later, an earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a tsunami whose devastating effects were felt over a vast area. In each case, a natural catastrophe came to be interpreted as a consequence of human evil. Between these two events, two indisputably moral catastrophes occurred: Auschwitz and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And yet the nuclear holocaust survivors likened the horror they had suffered to a natural disaster-a tsunami. Jean-Pierre Dupuy asks whether, from Lisbon to Sumatra, mankind has r
- Contents:
- Contents; A Note on the Translation; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Genesis; Chapter 2. From Lisbon to Sumatra; Chapter 3. The Naturalization of Evil; Chapter 4. The Problem of Future Catastrophe; Appendix. Japan, 2011; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-78)and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 3, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-244-X
- 1-60917-472-0
- OCLC:
- 918993060
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