The catastrophic imperative: subjectivity, time and memory in contemporary thought

Evoking the contemporary Zeitgeist of looming ecological, political and economic disaster, a distinguished group of thinkers invite a compelling reconsideration of the ways we, as representing subjects, might be more deeply implicated in catastrophic events than we ordinarily imagine. INDICE: Notes On Contributors - Introduction: B.Biebuyck, G.Buelens, O.de Graef, D.Hoens ; S.Jöttkandt - Who or What Decides: For Derrida: A Catastrophic Theory of Decision; J.Hillis Miller - Catastrophic Narratives and Why the 'Catastrophe' to Catastrophe Might Have Already Happened; E.Vogt - Breath of Relief: Sloterdijk and the Politics of the Intimate; S.van Tuinen - Man is a swarm animal; J.Clemens - Notes on the Bird War: Biopolitics of the Visible (in the Era of Climate Change); T.Cohen - Dialectical Catastrophe: Hegel's Allegory of Physiognomy and the Ethics of Survival; P.Moll - Catastrophe, Citationalityand the Limits of Responsibility in Disgrace ; G.Buelens - Unpredictable Inevitability and the Boundaries of Psychic Life; D.Nobus - Who is Nietzsche?; A.Badiou - Is Pleasure a Rotten Idea?; A.Schuster - Nationalist Ext(im)asy: Maurice Barrès and the Roots of Fascist Enjoyment; G.Chaitin - Topography of the Border: Derrida Rewriting Transcendental Aesthetics; J.Hodge - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-55285-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 09/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés