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"How to Think about Catastrophe argues that "only by making good use of [its ethical] faculty can humanity hope to curb its power over things and over itself--a power that is excessive and, above all, destructive.""--
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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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Comment vivre et penser dans nos sociétés du risque ? Comment conjurer le tragique de l'existence ? Comment, au milieu des décombres, surmonter tristesse, fatalisme et désespoir ? Questions immémoriales, plus que jamais d'actualité. Le Japon a une réponse, inspirée du bouddhisme. L'Occident en a une autre, ancrée dans sa tradition judéo-chrétienne, et en plein renouveau : la catastrophe comme message symbolique et initiation à l'Apocalypse. Encore faut-il, pour décoder le message, réapprendre un vieux métier d'avenir : le prophétisme. D'où ce petit manuel d'apprentissage.
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Crises (Philosophy) --- Catastrophical, The - Philosophy --- Philosophy --- Catastrophical, The
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Le retoriche giornalistiche e gli immaginari mediali ci parlano di un mondo in declino, il cui orizzonte si fa sempre più difficile da scorgere, tormentato da innumerevoli paure e messo in discussione da catastrofi imminenti. Crisi politiche, disastri ecologici, complotti globali, scenari da fine del mondo. Ma qual è il confine tra pericoli attuali o futuri, narrazioni mediali e immaginario socioculturale? Cosa rende il catastrofismo così radicato nell’immaginario collettivo, sin dai tempi antichi? Come si propaga nella società contemporanea e attraverso i media? Il volume rende conto di questo complesso intreccio simbolico e culturale, ponendo le basi per leggere analiticamente i discorsi contemporanei della e sulla catastrofe: mappandone le strutture e i temi comuni, ricordando le teorie matematico–semiotiche che lo hanno utilizzato, indagando le dinamiche culturali e il concretizzarsi della catastrofe nelle immagini, e indagando le narrazioni e le esperienze percepite durante e in seguito a tali eventi, i resti culturali e concreti della loro influenza nella nostra cultura.
Disasters --- Catastrophical, The --- Catastrophical, The, in motion pictures
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Confronté à des situations extrêmes lors de récentes missions de recherche, Alain Renaut s'est interrogé sur sa condition même de philosophe. Par-delà l'émotion et l'indignation, peut-on forger des outils philosophiques qui nous aident à comprendre et à agir ? Pourquoi et comment philosopher, avec des concepts, des données et des images, en Haïti ou au sud du Sahara ? À dégager les logiques qui dictent les pires radicalisations de la souffrance et de l'humiliation dont le monde humain reste capable. À établir, au-delà de généralités convenues, d'indispensables priorités face aux exigences de la survie ou à celles d'une vie décente pour les femmes, les enfants, pour les plus vulnérables à la violence et au risque
Justice (Philosophy) --- Catastrophical, The --- Disasters --- Philosophy --- Catastrophical, The - Philosophy --- Disasters - Philosophy
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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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Theory of knowledge --- Change --- Catastrophical, The --- Ontology --- Change.
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Grief --- Change --- Bereavement --- American poetry --- Women authors. --- Ontology --- Catastrophical, The
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