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Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism / Vanessa Pupavac and Mladen Pupavac.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pupavac, Vanessa, author.
- Pupavac, Mladen, author.
- Series:
- Studies in social and global justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
- Disasters--Europe.
- Disasters.
- Disasters--Forecasting.
- Humanism--Europe.
- Humanism.
- Liberty.
- Europe--Politics and government.
- Europe.
- Politics and government.
- Faust (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 297 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
- Summary:
- Goethe's 1832 play Faust offers a vision of humanity realising freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European humanist aspirations to build free and prosperous national political communities protected from natural disasters--back cover.
- Contents:
- 1. Faustian Visions of 'A Free People Standing on Free Land'
- 2. The Disastrous Birth of Modernity in Europe
- 3. Faustian Work and 'The Hope of the Poor'
- 4. The Rise and Fall of Faust the Developer
- 5. Nikola Tesla's Faustian Dream
- 6. The Metamorphosis of Risk Cosmopolitanism
- 7. Submerging Humanity and Rewilding Tesla's Homeland
- Epilogue: The New European Wilderness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-292)and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hiram G. Haney Fund.
- ISBN:
- 153814493X
- 9781538144930
- OCLC:
- 1152051919
- Publisher Number:
- 99985813426
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