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The Catastrophe of Modernity

The Catastrophe of Modernity
Author: Patrick Dove
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838755617

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This work examines four Latin American writers--Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Cesar Vallejo, and Ricardo Piglia--in the context of their respective national cultural traditions. The author proposes that a consideration of tragedy affords new ways of understanding the relation between literature and the modern Latin American nation-state. As an interpretive index, this tragic attunement sheds new light on both the foundational works of modern Latin American literature and the counter-foundational literary critiques of modernization and nation-building. Topics include Borges's short story "El Sur" in relation to the Argentine "civilization and barbarism" debate, Juan Rulfo's novella "Pedro Paramo in the context of post-revolutionary reflection on national identity in Mexico, and the lyric poetry of Cesar Vellajo's "Trilce. The reading is based on a juxtaposition of aporetically incompatible terms: mourning, the avant-garde, and Andean indigenism or messianism. The final section of the book investigates two novels by Ricardo Piglia, "Respiracion artificial and "La ciudad ausente, in the dual context of dictatorship and the market. Piglia's writing both echoes and marks a limit for tragedy as an interpretive paradigm.


The Future as Catastrophe

The Future as Catastrophe
Author: Eva Horn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2018
Genre: Disaster films
ISBN: 9780231188623

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The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned.


Adorno's Modernism

Adorno's Modernism
Author: Espen Hammer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107121590

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The book is a study of Adorno's aesthetics, its philosophical background, and its account of aesthetic modernism.


Catastrophe and Philosophy

Catastrophe and Philosophy
Author: David J. Rosner
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1498540120

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This book takes a different approach to the history of philosophy, exploring a neglected theme, the relationship between catastrophe and philosophy. The book analyzes this theme within texts from ancient times to the present, from a global perspective. The book’s focus is timely and relevant today, as the planet is certainly facing a number of impending catastrophes right now, e.g., environmental degradation, overpopulation, the threat of nuclear war, etc.


In the Shadow of Catastrophe

In the Shadow of Catastrophe
Author: Anson Rabinbach
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2001-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520226909

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"The quality of Rabinbach's intellectual history and his ability to write about highly complex texts in an accessible way are unassailable. His conviction that this German tradition of thought still exerts a strong intellectual and even political influence today makes In the Shadow of Catastrophe a direct and powerful intervention in current debates. This book is a gem!"—Andreas Huyssen, author of Twilight Memories


Heidegger and Marcuse

Heidegger and Marcuse
Author: Andrew Feenberg
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2005
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780415941778

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


The Future as Catastrophe

The Future as Catastrophe
Author: Eva Horn
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0231547951

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Why do we have the constant feeling that disaster is looming? Beyond the images of atomic apocalypse that have haunted us for decades, we are dazzled now by an array of possible catastrophe scenarios: climate change, financial crises, environmental disasters, technological meltdowns—perennial subjects of literature, film, popular culture, and political debate. Is this preoccupation with catastrophe questionable alarmism or complacent passivity? Or are there certain truths that can be revealed only in apocalypse? In The Future as Catastrophe, Eva Horn offers a novel critique of the modern fascination with disaster, which she treats as a symptom of our relationship to the future. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its cultural and historical roots in Romanticism and the figure of the Last Man, through the narratives of climatic cataclysm and the Cold War’s apocalyptic sublime, to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned. Considering works by Lord Byron, J. G. Ballard, and Cormac McCarthy and films such as 12 Monkeys and Minority Report alongside scientific scenarios and political metaphors, she analyzes catastrophic thought experiments and the question of survival, the choices legitimized by imagined states of exception, and the contradictions inherent in preventative measures taken in the name of technical safety or political security. What makes today’s obsession different from previous epochs’ is the sense of a “catastrophe without event,” a stealthily creeping process of disintegration. Ultimately, Horn argues, imagined catastrophes offer us intellectual tools that can render a future shadowed with apocalyptic possibilities affectively, epistemologically, and politically accessible.


Empire and Catastrophe

Empire and Catastrophe
Author: Spencer D. Segalla
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2021-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496219635

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Spencer D. Segalla examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France and explores how environmental catastrophes impacted the dissolution of France’s empire in North Africa.


Tragedies of Modernity

Tragedies of Modernity
Author: Frederick W. Sonpon
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1491756020

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But Niffu Town, a no place of mind to speak of, inside Africa deep that is full of mediocrity or life is by chance, where two wonderfully blessed individuals came from, has long been ruled by customs due to a maddening history, once when sorts of evils shrouded the lives of most individuals, involving so much ritual acts. And its only by customs upon the gods of the land acted when peace at least, returned to the town. Inexplicably two cousins: Tesio--a male, and Gmasnoh--a female, they rose to the challenge of poverty from such society, seeking the path of western education for a better life then. A wonder, earlier they held unto a traditional premarital belief, rather as commitment to their tradition, avoiding sex in life till at twenty-five years old yet, obtaining success before should that be later. The two obtained scholarships at home earlier to have travelled the distance of USA---for the advanced study that has been in Medical. They intended going to Oklahoma City on the campuses of Oral Roberts Medical College. Earlier, while in transit upon landing at the John F. Kennedy Airport, and making attempt, having entered their connect flight for the campus, some group of former US Soldiers, who have since then pleaded with the US Government to pay off their remaining benefits upon the return from Iraq---but no avail yet, came to cause a havoc. Tesio, wonderfully contained the surprising catastrophe that should have been---skillfully. Like a magic, reaching the USA was the gesticulating of a huge, an early blessing, when they obtained automatic honorary citizenship of the United States by then, living the American Dream. And they also got married while in the USA. Such marriages, however, became the crimes against their tradition. Consequently, after several years had gone by, the strange human captor---death, came at last against them by an accident.


Shipwreck Modernity

Shipwreck Modernity
Author: Steve Mentz
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1452945543

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Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down. Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched for stability amid the cultural shifts that resulted from global expansion. The ancient master plot of shipwreck provided a literary language for their dislocation and uncertainty. Steve Mentz identifies three paradigms that expose the cultural meanings of shipwreck in historical and imaginative texts from the mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries: wet globalization, blue ecology, and shipwreck modernity. The years during which the English nation and its emerging colonies began to define themselves through oceangoing expansion were also a time when maritime disaster occupied sailors, poets, playwrights, sermon makers, and many others. Through coming to terms with shipwreck, these figures adapted to disruptive change. Traces of shipwreck ecology appear in canonical literature from Shakespeare to Donne to Defoe and also in sermons, tales of survival, amateur poetry, and the diaries of seventeenth-century English sailors. The isolated islands of Bermuda and the perils of divine anger hold central places. Modern sailor-poets including Herman Melville serve as valuable touchstones in the effort to parse the reality and understandings of global shipwreck. Offering the first ecocritical account of early modern shipwreck narratives, Shipwreck Modernity reveals the surprisingly modern truths to be found in these early stories of ecological collapse.