The catastrophic imperative
Subtitle: subjectivity, time and memory in contemporary thought
By: edited by Dominiek Hoens, Sigi Jottkandt, Gert Buelens.
Contributors: Hoens, Dominiek.; Jottkandt, Sigi, 1965-; Buelens, Gert.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230552852
Subjects: Subjectivity; Thought and thinking; Disasters
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: Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations * Notes On Contributors * Introduction: B.Biebuyck, G.Buelens, O.de Graef, D.Hoens, S.Jttkandt * Who or What Decides: For Derrida: A Catastrophic Theory of Decision; title: J.Hillis Miller * Catastrophic Narratives and Why the Catastrophe to Catastrophe Might Have Already Happened; title: E.Vogt * Breath of Relief: Sloterdijk and the Politics of the Intimate; title: S.van Tuinen * Man is a swarm animal; title: J.Clemens * Notes on the Bird War: Biopolitics of the Visible (in the Era of Climate Change); title: T.Cohen * Dialectical Catastrophe: Hegels Allegory of Physiognomy and the Ethics of Survival; title: P.Moll * Catastrophe, Citationality and the Limits of Responsibility in Disgrace; title: G.Buelens * Unpredictable Inevitability and the Boundaries of Psychic Life; D.Nobus * Who is Nietzsche?; title: A.Badiou * Is Pleasure a Rotten Idea?; title: A.Schuster * Nationalist Ext(im)asy: Maurice Barrs and the Roots of Fascist Enjoyment; title: G.Chaitin * Topography of the Border: Derrida Rewriting Transcendental Aesthetics; title: J.Hodge * Index List of illustrations * Notes On Contributors * Introduction: B.Biebuyck, G.Buelens, O.de Graef, D.Hoens, S.Jttkandt * Who or What Decides: For Derrida: A Catastrophic Theory of Decision; title: J.Hillis Miller * Catastrophic Narratives and Why the Catastrophe to Catastrophe Might Have Already Happened; title: E.Vogt * Breath of Relief: Sloterdijk and the Politics of the Intimate; title: S.van Tuinen * Man is a swarm animal; title: J.Clemens * Notes on the Bird War: Biopolitics of the Visible (in the Era of Climate Change); title: T.Cohen * Dialectical Catastrophe: Hegels Allegory of Physiognomy and the Ethics of Survival; title: P.Moll * Catastrophe, Citationality and the Limits of Responsibility in Disgrace; title: G.Buelens * Unpredictable Inevitability and the Boundaries of Psychic Life; D.Nobus * Who is Nietzsche?; title: A.Badiou * Is Pleasure a Rotten Idea?; title: A.Schuster * Nationalist Ext(im)asy: Maurice Barrs and the Roots of Fascist Enjoyment; title: G.Chaitin * Topography of the Border: Derrida Rewriting Transcendental Aesthetics; title: J.Hodge * Index.