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"The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region. Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected essays explore the discursive and artistic space the Shoah occupies in the countries between Moscow and Berlin. Postcatastrophe is informed by the knowledge of other concepts of "post" and shares their insight into forms of transmission and latency; in contrast to them, explores the after-effects of extreme events on a collective, aesthetic, and political rather than a personal level. The articles use the concept of postcatastrophe as a key to understanding the entangled and conflicted cultures of remembrance in postsocialist literatures and the arts dealing with events, phenomena and developments that refuse to remain in the past and still continue to shape perceptions of today's societies in Eastern Europe. As a contribution to memory studies as well as to literary criticism with a special focus on Shoah remembrance after socialism, this book is of great interest to students and scholars of European history, and those interested in historical memory more broadly".
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Catastrophes and crises are exceptions. They are disruptions of order. In various ways and to different degrees, they change and subvert what we regard as normal. They may occur on a personal level in the form of traumatic or stressful situations, on a social level in the form of unstable political, financial or religious situations, or on a global level in the form of environmental states of emergency. The main assumption in this book is that, in contrast to the directness of any given catastrophe and its obvious physical, economical and psychological consequences our understanding of catastrophes and crises is shaped by our cultural imagination. No matter in which eruptive and traumatizing form we encounter them, our collective repertoire of symbolic forms, historical sensibilities, modes of representation, and patterns of imagination determine how we identify, analyze and deal with catastrophes and crises. This book presents a series of articles investigating how we address and interpret catastrophes and crises in film, literature, art and theory, ranging from Voltaire's eighteenth-century Europe, haunted by revolutions and earthquakes, to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda to the bleak, prophetic landscapes of Cormac McCarthy.
Catastrophical, The, in motion pictures. --- Catastrophical, The, in literature. --- Catastrophical, The, in art. --- Motion pictures --- Art. --- Catastrophes. --- Crises. --- Film. --- Literature. --- Trauma.
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Grief --- Change --- Bereavement --- American poetry --- Women authors. --- Ontology --- Catastrophical, The
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When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination that defined the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern period. Reaching back to the time between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Passannante traces a history of catastrophizing through literary and philosophical encounters with materialism-the view that the world is composed of nothing but matter. As artists, poets, philosophers, and scholars pondered the physical causes and material stuff of the cosmos, they conjured up disasters out of thin air and responded as though to events that were befalling them. From Leonardo da Vinci's imaginative experiments with nature's destructive forces to the fevered fantasies of doomsday astrologers, from the self-fulfilling prophecies of Shakespeare's tragic characters to the mental earthquakes that guided Kant toward his theory of the sublime, Passannante shows how and why the early moderns reached for disaster when they ventured beyond the limits of the sensible. He goes on to explore both the danger and the critical potential of thinking catastrophically in our own time.
Thematology --- Comparative literature --- Psychological study of literature --- Catastrophical, The, in art. --- Catastrophical, The, in literature. --- Catastrophical, The. --- Catastrophizing. --- Catastrophizing --- Catastrophical, The --- Catastrophical, The, in art --- Catastrophical, The, in literature --- Disasters --- Ontology --- Tragic, The --- Change --- Expectation (Psychology) --- Worry --- E-books --- Renaissance. --- affect. --- catastrophe. --- catastrophizing. --- disaster. --- early modern. --- intellectual history. --- materialism. --- philosophy.
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Influential accounts of persistence⁰́₄how ordinary objects persist through time⁰́₄examine the perdurantist, exdurantist, and endurantist approaches and provide an overview of the topic.
Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Change. --- Identity --- Ontology --- Catastrophical, The --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- PHILOSOPHY/General --- Change
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Written in an engaging dialogue style, Smith and Oaklander cover metaphysical topics from a student's perspective and introduce key concepts through a process of explanation, reformulation and critique.
Metaphysics. --- Time. --- Change. --- Ontology --- Catastrophical, The --- Hours (Time) --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Philosophy --- God --- Philosophy of mind
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Since the 1980s, "risk" has been one of the most productively employed categories of analysis in the social sciences. Risk theory and risk research in these disciplines have shown that pervasive risk awareness has increasingly reconfigured societies, politics, and cultures in our period of late modernity. The essays assembled in this volume extend risk research in the humanities to literary and cultural studies and analyze a wide range of literary and audiovisual texts that imagine human encounters with environmental risk in North America. They are grouped into three sections. The first sectio
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Author Michael Gelven suggests that thinking metaphysically transforms us, and consequently the nature of metaphysics itself is transformational. Using concrete existential phenomena such as the learning process, how children mature into adults, and how fear can develop into courage, he establishes an understanding of metaphysical transformation.
Change. --- Thought and thinking. --- Metaphysics --- Mind --- Thinking --- Thoughts --- Educational psychology --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Intellect --- Logic --- Perception --- Psycholinguistics --- Self --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Psychological aspects. --- Catastrophical, The
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Design --- Change --- Decorative Arts --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Ontology --- Catastrophical, The --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Philosophy --- History --- Social aspects
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Aesthetics, Modern --- Art, Renaissance. --- Change --- Philosophy, Renaissance. --- Philosophy, Renaissance --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Aesthetics --- Ontology --- Catastrophical, The --- Art, Renaissance --- Renaissance art --- Philosophy, Modern --- Renaissance philosophy --- Modern aesthetics --- History
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