The catastrophic imperative
Subtitle: subjectivity, time and memory in contemporary thought
By: edited by Dominiek Hoens, Sigi Jöttkandt and Gert Buelens
Contributors: Jottkandt, Sigi, 1965-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780230552852
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Benjamin Biebuyck ... [et al.]; title: Who or What Decides for Derrida: A Catastrophic Theory of Decision / J.Hillis Miller; title: Catastrophic Narratives and Why the 'Catastrophe" to Catastrophe Might Have Already Happened / Erik M. Vogt; title: Breath of Relief: Sloterdijk and the Politics of the Intimate / Sjoerd van Tuinen; title: Man is a swarm animal / Justin Clemens; title: Notes on the Bird War: Biopolitics of the Visible (in the Era of Climate Change) / Tom Cohen; title: Dialectical Catastrophe: Hegel's Allegory of Physiognomy and the Ethics of Survival / Patience Moll; title: Catastrophe, Citationality and the Limits of Responsibility in Disgrace / Gert Buelens; title: Unpredictable Inevitability and the Boundaries of Psychic Life / Dany Nobus; title: Who is Nietzsche? / Alain Badiou; title: Is Pleasure a Rotten Idea? Deleuze and Lacan on Pleasure and Jouissance / Aaron Schuster; title: Nationalist Ext(im)asy: Maurice Barrès and the Roots of Fascist Enjoyment / Gil Chaitin; title: Topography of the Border: Derrida Rewriting Transcendental Aesthetics / Joanna Hodge.