The Time of Catastrophe Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Age of Catastrophe |
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| Author:
| Dole, Christopher
Hayashi, Robert
Sarat, Austin
Poe, Andrew |
| Series title: | Law, Justice and Power Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4724-6836-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2015 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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This book brings together a distinguished, interdisciplinary group of scholars who offer a set of frameworks and a critical language for examining conventional understandings of catastrophe and the catastrophic. Framed around the ideas of Agamben, Kant and Benjamin, the volume demonstrates how the question of `catastrophic time' is in fact a question about something much more than the frequency of disasters in our so-called `Age of Catastrophe'.
This book brings together a distinguished, interdisciplinary group of scholars who offer a set of frameworks and a critical language for examining conventional understandings of catastrophe and the catastrophic. Framed around the ideas of Agamben, Kant and Benjamin, the volume demonstrates how the question of `catastrophic time' is in fact a question about something much more than the frequency of disasters in our so-called `Age of Catastrophe'.