دانلود کتاب The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises

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Introduction\nI. Thinking Catastrophes and Crises\n The Cultural Analysis of Disaster\n Catastrophic Turns – From the Literary History of the Catastrophic\n Making Crises and Catastrophes – How Metaphors and Narratives shape their Cultural Life\n Carsten Meiner: The Metaphysics of Catastrophe – Voltaire’s Candide\n Adorno’s Idea of Art as the Revelation of a Permanent and Universal Catastrophe\nII. Witnessing and Remembering Catastrophes and Crises\n Memory Crisis – Remembering and Forgetting in Post-genocide Rwanda\n Catastrophe, Documentary and the Limits of Cinematic Representation\n The Excess of Kali Yuga – Repetition, Remembrance and Longing\n The Visual Literacy of Disaster in Ernst Jünger’s Photo Books\n Dreaming the American Nightmare – The Cultural Life of 9/11\nIII. Imagining Catastrophes and Crises\n Macbeth – The Catastrophe of Regicide and the Crisis of Imagination\n “The Dead shall inherit the Dead” – After Life and beyond Catastrophe in Mark Strand’s Post-Apocalyptic Poetry\n September 11 and the Disruption of Singularity\n Resounding Catastrophe – Auditory Perspectives on 9/11\n The Frailty of Everything – Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Modern Disaster Discourse\nIV. Desiring and Consuming Catastrophes and Crises\n The Aesthetics of Catastrophe – Edmund Burke on Sympathy\n Kunst macht frei – Misrepresenting the Holocaust in Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Hell\n The New Flesh – A Variation on David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and Pierre Klossowski’s La monnaie vivante\n “Nobody came, nobody settled, nobody shopped” – When the World ends in a Mall: Dawn of the Dead, WALL-E, The Wild Blue Yonder\n Freak Ecology – An Introduction to the Fictional History of Natural Disaster\nList of Contributors\nIndex