Aftermath : the fall and the rise after the event / edited by Robert Kusek, Beata Piatek and Wojciech Szymanski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kusek, Robert, editor.

Piątek, B. (Beata), editor.

Szymanski, Wojciech, editor.

Series:

Topomo.

Topomo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Events (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press, 2019.

Summary:

What happens in the wake of the event? Is the event's aftermath always characterised by the experience of disorder, fragmentation, and impermanence? Or, alternatively, can aftermath be seen as a new growth, a second crop of grass that can be sown and reaped and which gives rise to a new integrity, a new unity? The volume's twenty-three essays by scholars from Australia, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, and the United States re-visit the notion and representation of aftermath, understood here widely as a consequence/result/after-effect of a seminal event (to an individual, a community, society, regions or nations), and explore its transformative and life-changing characteristics. While acknowledging disastrous or catastrophic consequences of the event, Aftermath argues in favour of recognising some rejuvenating potential of its after-effects.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Nov 2021).

ISBN:

9788323370024

8323370028