Catastrophe And Redemption

Author : Jessica Whyte
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438448541

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Catastrophe and Redemption by Jessica Whyte Pdf

Challenging the prevalent account of Agamben as a pessimistic thinker, Catastrophe and Redemption proposes a reading of his political thought in which the redemptive element of his work is not a curious aside but instead is fundamental to his project. Jessica Whyte considers his critical account of contemporary politics—his argument that Western politics has been "biopolitics" since its inception, his critique of human rights, his argument that the state of exception is now the norm, and the paradigmatic significance he attributes to the concentration camp—and shows that it is in the midst of these catastrophes of the present that Agamben sees the possibility of a form of profane redemption. Whyte outlines the importance of potentiality in his attempt to formulate a new politics, examines his relation to Jewish and Christian strands of messianism, and interrogates the new forms of praxis that he situates within contemporary commodity culture, taking Agamben's thought as a call for the creation of new political forms.

Author : Andrew Feenberg
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415941784

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Heidegger and Marcuse by Andrew Feenberg Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Katharina Gerstenberger,Tanja Nusser
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139016

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Catastrophe and Catharsis by Katharina Gerstenberger,Tanja Nusser Pdf

Destroying human habitat and taking human lives, disasters, be they natural, man-made, or a combination, threaten large populations, even entire nations and societies. They also disrupt the existing order and cause discontinuity in our sense of self and our perceptions of the world. To restore order, not only must human beings be rescued and affected areas rebuilt, but the reality of the catastrophe must also be transformed into narrative. The essays in this collection examine representations of disaster in literature, film, and mass media in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the Lisbon earthquake, the Paris Commune, the Hamburg and Dresden fire-bombings in the Second World War, nuclear disasters in Alexander Kluge's films, the filmic aesthetics of catastrophe, Yoko Tawada's lectures on the Fukushima disaster and Christa Wolf's novel Störfall in light of that same disaster, Joseph Haslinger and the tsunami of 2004, traditions regarding avalanche disaster in the Tyrol, and the problems and implications of defining disaster. Contributors: Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel, Janine Hartman, Jan Hinrichsen, Claudia Jerzak, Lars Koch, Franz Mauelshagen, Tanja Nusser, Torsten Pflugmacher, Christoph Weber. Katharina Gerstenberger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Utah. Tanja Nusser is DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati.

Author : Russell James Angus Kilbourn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Redemption in literature
ISBN : 0810138085

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W.G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption by Russell James Angus Kilbourn Pdf

W. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption brings to light certain recurrent ideas scattered through Sebald's writings, including the two-sided question of "cultural redemption" in a supposedly secular world: can culture save us from the catastrophe of history, and/or how can we save our culture in the process?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178204678X

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Catastrophe and Catharsis: Perspectives on Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

Author : Russell Kilbourn
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810138117

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W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption by Russell Kilbourn Pdf

Focusing on W. G. Sebald's four works of prose fiction—The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, The Emigrants, and Austerlitz—Russell J. A. Kilbourn traces the author's abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world that has been described as postsecular. He shows that Sebald's work stands between modernism's ironic hopes for redemption and whatever comes after. Out of the spectacle of humankind's slow-motion self-destruction, a "Sebaldian subject"—masculine, melancholic, ironic, potentially queer-emerges across the four prose narratives. Alongside Sebald studies' traditional subjects, which include memory, historiography, Sebald's critique of an image-based culture, and his highly intermedial poetics, W. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption demonstrates Sebald's relevance for affect theory, new materialism, and the posthuman turn. It critiques the possibility of metaphysical or eroto-salvific models of redemption, arguing against the temptation of psychoanalytic interpretations, as Sebald's work of memory rejects the discourse of redemption in favor of restitution. In its consideration of Sebald's place in twentieth-century literature and after, Kilbourn's book engages with such predecessors as Nabokov, Kafka, Conrad, and Beckett, concluding with comparisons with contemporaries Claudio Magris and Alice Munro.

Author : L. James Gibson,Ronny Nalin,Humberto M. Rasi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1940980305

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Design and Catastrophe by L. James Gibson,Ronny Nalin,Humberto M. Rasi Pdf

"An in-depth exploration of the way the biblical record illuminates various phenomena observed in the natural world"--

Author : Tade Thompson
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316449069

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The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson Pdf

The Rosewater Insurrection continues the award-winning science fiction trilogy by one of science fiction's most engaging voices. All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret. The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive Kaaro, is at the forefront of the cold, silent conflict. She must capture a woman who is the key to the survival of the human race. But Aminat is stymied by the machinations of the Mayor of Rosewater and the emergence of an old enemy of Wormwood. Innovative and genre-bending, Tade Thompson's ambitious Afrofuturist series is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. K. Jemisin, and Ann Leckie. Praise for The Wormwood Trilogy: "Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!" —Ann Leckie, award winning-author of Ancillary Justice "Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no one." —M. R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl with All the Gifts "A magnificent tour de force, skillfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas." —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time The Wormwood Trilogy Rosewater The Rosewater Insurrection The Rosewater Redemption

Author : Mathew Abbott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748684106

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Figure of This World by Mathew Abbott Pdf

What if we've been wrong when reading Agamben? Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought is misunderstood when read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. Instead, he shows that it engages with political ontology: studying the political stakes of the question of being. Abbot demonstrates the crucial influence of Martin Heidegger on Agamben's work, locating it in the post-Heideggerian tradition of the critique of metaphysics. As he clarifies it, Abbott links Agamben's philosophy with Wittgenstein's picture theory and Heidegger's concept of the world-picture, showing the importance of this for understanding - and potentially overcoming - the forms of alienation characteristic of the society of the spectacle.

Author : Adam B. Seligman,Robert P. Weller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190888725

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How Things Count as the Same by Adam B. Seligman,Robert P. Weller Pdf

In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we live in harmony with groups who may not share the sense of a common fate? Such relationships lie at the heart of the problems of pluralism that increasingly face so much of the world today. Note that "counting as" the same differs from "being" the same. Counting as the same is not an empirical question about how much or how little one person shares with another or one event shares with a previous event. Nothing is actually the same. That is why, as humans, we construct sameness all the time. In the process, of course, we also construct difference. Creating sameness and difference leaves us with the perennial problem of how to live with difference instead of seeing it as a threat. How Things Count as the Same suggests that there are multiple ways in which we can count things as the same, and that each of them fosters different kinds of group dynamics and different sets of benefits and risks for the creation of plural societies. While there might be many ways to understand how people construct sameness, three stand out as especially important and form the focus of the book's analysis: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor.

Author : Rohit Goel
Publisher : Kaph Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 614803557X

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Future Perfect: Catastrophe and Redemption in the Contemporary by Rohit Goel Pdf

Cultural and artistic practitioners from the UAE reflect on our collective and individual roles in building a better future This publication gathers contributions from the first cohort at 421, a platform dedicated to emerging artists and creative practitioners from the UAE and across the region. These courageous reflections suggest paradigms through which to consider our individual and collective roles in conceptualizing time and looking toward the future.

Author : Greg Bird
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438461878

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Containing Community by Greg Bird Pdf

Analyzes the role of community in the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Winner of the 2017 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy Community has been both celebrated and demonized as a fortress that shelters and defends its members from being exposed to difference. Instead of abandoning community as an antiquated model of relationships that is ill suited for our globalized world, this book turns to the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Jean-Luc Nancy in search for ways to rethink community in an open and inclusive manner. Greg Bird argues that a central piece of this task is found in how each philosopher rearticulates community not as something that is proper to those who belong and improper to those who are excluded or where inclusion is based on one’s share in common property. We must return to the forgotten dimension of sharing, not as a sharing of things that we can contain and own, but as a process that divides us up and shares us out in community with one another. This book traces this problem through a wide array of fields ranging from biopolitics, communitarianism, existentialism, phenomenology, political economy, radical philosophy, and social theory. Greg Bird is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and the coeditor (with Jonathan Short) of Community, Immunity and the Proper: Roberto Esposito.

Author : John Abromeit,W. Mark Cobb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134700493

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Herbert Marcuse by John Abromeit,W. Mark Cobb Pdf

The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader is a collection of brand new papers by seventeen Marcuse scholars, which provides a comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Marcuse's critical theory at the beginning of the 21st century. Although best known for his reputation in critical theory, Herbert Marcuse's work has had impact on areas as diverse as politics, technology, aesthetics, psychoanalysis and ecology. This collection addresses the contemporary relevance of Marcuse's work in this broad variety of fields and from an international perspective. In Part One, veteran scholars of Marcuse and the Frankfurt school examine the legacy of various specific areas of Marcuse's thought, including the quest for radical subjectivity, the maternal ethic and the negative dialectics of imagination. Part Two focuses on a very new trend in Marcuse scholarship: the link between Marcuse's ideas and environmental thought. The third part of this collection is dedicated to the work of younger Marcuse scholars, with the aim of documenting Marcuse's reception among the next generation of critical theorists. The final section of the book contains recollections on Marcuse's person rather than his critical theory, including an informative look back over his life by his son, Peter.

Author : Idith Zertal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520921719

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From Catastrophe to Power by Idith Zertal Pdf

In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, that was organized by Palestinian Zionists just after World War II. Events that captured the attention of the world, such as the Exodus affair in the summer 1947, are seen here in a strikingly new light. At the center of Zertal's book is the Mossad, a small, unorthodox Zionist organization whose mission beginning in 1938 was to bring Jews to Palestine in order to subvert the British quotas on Jewish immigration. From Catastrophe to Power scrutinizes the Mossad's mode of operation, its ideology and politics, its structure and history, and its collective human profile as never before. Zertal's moving story sweeps across four continents and encompasses a range of political cultures and international forces. But underneath this story another darker and more complex plot unfolds: the special encounter between the Zionist revolutionary collective and the mass of Jewish remnant after the Holocaust. According to Zertal, this psychologically painful yet politically powerful encounter was the Zionists' most effective weapon in their struggle for a sovereign Jewish state. Drawing on primary archival documents and new readings of canonical texts of the period, she analyzes this encounter from all angles—political, social, cultural, and psychological. The outcome is a gripping and troubling human story of a crucial period in Jewish and Israeli history, one that also provides a key to understanding the fundamental tensions between Israel and the Jewish communities and Israel and the world today.

Author : Jessica Whyte
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786633118

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The Morals of the Market by Jessica Whyte Pdf

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society. In the wake of the Second World War, neoliberals saw demands for new rights to social welfare and self-determination as threats to “civilisation”. Yet, rather than rejecting rights, they developed a distinctive account of human rights as tools to depoliticise civil society, protect private investments and shape liberal subjects.