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Studies in irreversibility : texts and contexts / edited by Benjamin Schreier.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fate and fatalism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The premise of Studies in Irreversibility: Texts and Contexts is that there is a big difference between phenomena, practices, processes, and events that are irreversible and those that are reversible, and moreover that this difference and its manifold implications remain underappreciated so long as the analysis of culture continues to anchor itself in an emphasis on the capacities of human agency. If messianic modes posit a future to justify the present, and so interpret the influence of the ...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART II; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-41437-2
- 9786612414374
- 1-4438-1527-6
- OCLC:
- 821179722
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