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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, vi + 200pp, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright throughout, unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- A critical reexamination of the role of catastrophe in shaping modern intellectual, cultural and political discourse. Far… from treating catastrophes as isolated or naturalized events, this volume conceptualizes them as historically operative phenomena - events that do not merely disrupt but catalyze paradigmatic shifts in thought, policy and collective imaginaries. The book assembles a set of interdisciplinary essays exploring how catastrophes have been imagined, narrated, instrumentalized and theorized across time, with a particular focus on Central European intellectual traditions, post-Enlightenment modernity and the political theology of crisis. The volume emerges in response to a renewed scholarly and public interest in catastrophic risk, intensified by global crises such as climate change, terrorism, pandemics and economic collapse. It situates this urgency within a genealogy that runs from the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 to the Holocaust, the Cold War and into the Anthropocene. Throughout, the contributors interrogate how modern societies have attempted to control or interpret catastrophic events through administrative, scientific, theological and aesthetic frameworks - often oscillating between epistemic rupture and mythic continuity. Deborah Coen's essay opens the volume by juxtaposing narrative and instrumentation - "the storyteller and the seismograph" - to examine how seismic science and literary form converged in 19th-century Europe to produce new models for understanding disaster. David Bates explores catastrophe through cybernetic paradigms, focusing on mid-20th-century notions of order, plasticity and systemic collapse. Eva Horn, drawing from apocalyptic literature and visual art, tracks the emergence of the "last man" trope as a modern figure of existential finality. Historical catastrophes are reframed as loci of political and institutional transformation. Killen's contribution on industrial accidents in interwar Germany uncovers how labor risk became a crucible for modern state rationality and bureaucratic governance. Lebovic's chapter probes the conceptualization of a "permanent state of catastrophe" in the jurisprudential thought of German-Jewish judges, revealing catastrophe as an embedded condition of legal modernity. Further essays explore post-Holocaust trauma theory (Dagmar Herzog), Jewish theological approaches to eschatology (Martin Kavka) and the political use of catastrophe in late 20th-century climate discourse (Alyssa Battistoni & Matthias Dörries). One of the features of the volume is its critical engagement with climate catastrophe as both concept and cultural device. Battistoni analyzes the dual semantics of 'kata' (downfall) and 'streiphen' (turn), foregrounding the ambivalence of catastrophe as either apocalyptic collapse or revolutionary transformation. Dörries historicizes the term "climate catastrophe" in Germany and traces its migration from scientific discourse to public consciousness, illuminating how rhetorical strategies have shaped responses to global warming. Through case studies, theoretical analysis and historical contextualization, Catastrophes provides a robust toolkit for scholars of history, political theory, science and technology studies, and disaster humanities. Its insights into risk, trauma, epistemology and governance make it an essential contribution to contemporary debates on resilience, preparedness and the politics of precarity. In a time when catastrophe functions as both a real threat and a conceptual metaphor, this book challenges readers to rethink the ethical, philosophical and institutional frameworks that structure our understanding of crisis. It calls for a historicized awareness of how catastrophes are anticipated, managed and remembered - and how they condition the very possibility of the future.
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Hardback. Condition: New. Catastrophic scenarios dominate our contemporary mindset. Catastrophic events and predictions have spurred new interest in re-examining the history of earlier disasters and the social and conceptual resources they have mobilized. The essays gathered in this volume reconsider the history and theory of di…fferent catastrophes and their aftermath. The emphasis is on the need to distance this process of reconsideration from previous teleological representations of catastrophes as an endpoint, and to begin considering their "operative" aspects, which unmask the nature of social and political structures. Among the essays in this volume are analyses, by leading scholars in their respective fields, concerning the role of catastrophes in theology, in the history of industrial accidents, in theory of history, in the history of law, in "catastrophe films", in the history of cybernetics, in post-Holocaust discussions of reparations, and in climate change.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Catastrophic scenarios dominate our contemporary mindset. Catastrophic events and predictions have spurred new interest in re-examining the history of earlier disasters and the social and conceptual resources they have mobilized. The essays gathered in th…is volume reconsider the history and theory of different catastrophes and their aftermath. The emphasis is on the need to distance this process of reconsideration from previous teleological representations of catastrophes as an endpoint, and to begin considering their 'operative' aspects, which unmask the nature of social and political structures. Among the essays in this volume are analyses, by leading scholars in their respective fields, concerning the role of catastrophes in theology, in the history of industrial accidents, in theory of history, in the history of law, in 'catastrophe films', in the history of cybernetics, in post-Holocaust discussions of reparations, and in climate change.
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Hardback. Condition: New. Catastrophic scenarios dominate our contemporary mindset. Catastrophic events and predictions have spurred new interest in re-examining the history of earlier disasters and the social and conceptual resources they have mobilized. The essays gathered in this volume reconsider the history and theory of di…fferent catastrophes and their aftermath. The emphasis is on the need to distance this process of reconsideration from previous teleological representations of catastrophes as an endpoint, and to begin considering their "operative" aspects, which unmask the nature of social and political structures. Among the essays in this volume are analyses, by leading scholars in their respective fields, concerning the role of catastrophes in theology, in the history of industrial accidents, in theory of history, in the history of law, in "catastrophe films", in the history of cybernetics, in post-Holocaust discussions of reparations, and in climate change.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Catastrophic scenarios dominate our contemporary mindset. Catastrophic events and predictions have spurred new interest in re-examining the history of earlier disasters and the social and conceptual resources they have mobilized. The essay…s gathered in this volume reconsider the history and theory of different catastrophes and their aftermath. The emphasis is on the need to distance this process of reconsideration from previous teleological representations of catastrophes as an endpoint, and to begin considering their 'operative' aspects, which unmask the nature of social and political structures. Among the essays in this volume are analyses, by leading scholars in their respective fields, concerning the role of catastrophes in theology, in the history of industrial accidents, in theory of history, in the history of law, in 'catastrophe films', in the history of cybernetics, in post-Holocaust discussions of reparations, and in climate change. 208 pp. Englisch.
