Contaminations : beyond dialectics in modern literature, science and film / Michael Mack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mack, Michael, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectical materialism.

Science in literature.

Science in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Combining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects of Henry James's, H. Melville's and H. G. Wells's novels question notions of natural order as well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Climate Change and the Contamination of the Anthropocene

1 Contaminating Psychology with Biology: Descartes, Spinoza, Freud and Žižek

2 Contaminating the Visible with the Invisible: From Einstein via H. G. Wells to Hannah Arendt, Luhmann and Derrida

3 Contamination of Nature with Society: The Collapse of Natural Order from Melville to Wells and Ellison

4 Contaminating Judgement with its Suspension: Guilt and Punishment in Walter Benjamin, Herman Melville and Henry James

5 Contaminating the Digital: Action and Perception in Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock

6 Contaminating the Sacred with the Profane: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Biopolitics

7 Contaminating Posthumanism

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-7049-1

1-4744-1857-0

1-4744-1137-1