Waste
Subtitle: a philosophy of things
By: William Viney
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781472527578; 9781472525536; 9781472530011
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal; Philosophy; Antiquities; Ruins in literature; Waste (Economics) in literature
Description: "Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard is far from new -- it is integral to how we make, build and describe our lived environment. As this wide-ranging new study reveals, waste has been a polarizing topic for millennia and has been treated as a rich resource by artists, writers, philosophers and architects. Drawing on the works of Giorgio Agamben, T.S. Eliot, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, James Joyce, Bruno Latour and many others, Waste: A Philosophy of Things investigates the complexities of waste in sculpture, literature and architecture. It traces a new philosophy of things from the ancient to the modern and will be of interest to those working in cultural and literary studies, archaeology, architecture and continental philosophy"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( pages [181]-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Introduction Part I: Collecting Waste; title: 2. Narrating the Event of Waste; title: 3. Archaeologies of Waste Part II: Reading Waste; title: 4. The Poetic Economies of T. S. Eliot; title: 5. Reading Joycean Disjecta Part III: Building Ruins; title: 6. Ruins Past; title: 7. Ruins of the Future; title: 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.