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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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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

American literature --- Catastrophical, The, in literature --- Ecology in literature --- History and criticism.

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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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Die Frage nach der Einheit ist ein Grundproblem der Ontologie, denn die Art und Weise, wie Einheit bestimmt wird, charakterisiert und prägt jede Ontologie. Ein spezifisch ontologischer Zugang hat dabei beträchtliche Implikationen, die weit über den Bereich der theoretischen Ontologie hinaus Folgen für die Behandlung anthropologischer, ethischer und auch theologischer Fragen haben. Das Problem der Einheit, ihrer Kriterien und ihrer Erscheinungsweisen stellt sich für die Autoren dieses philosophischen Sammelbands in mehrfacher Hinsicht. Besondere Kontroversen löst vor allem die Frage nach der temporalen Einheit aus. Gibt es Einheit durch die Zeit? Wie plausibel ist die Annahme von "endurers"? Ist die Überzeugung, dass Personen durch ihre Lebenszeit hindurch dieselben bleiben, begründbar, oder ist diese Überzeugung nur ein lebensweltliches Vorurteil, das korrigiert werden muss? Welche Rolle spielen die Begriffe der Potenzialität, der Vermögen und Dispositionen in diesem Zusammenhang? Kann die (zeitliche) Einheit von Entitäten mit Hilfe dieser Begriffe ontologisch gedeutet werden?

Whole and parts (Philosophy) --- Time --- Change --- Hours (Time) --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Ganzheit (Philosophy) --- Mereology --- Totality (Philosophy) --- Unity (Philosophy) --- Wholeness --- Categories (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Ontology --- Catastrophical, The