Of Divine Warning : Disaster in a Modern Age

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Label

Of Divine Warning : Disaster in a Modern Age

Title remainder

Disaster in a Modern Age

Creator

• Gordon, Jane Anna

Contributor

• Gordon, Lewis R

Subject

• Disasters
• Disasters
• Disasters in literature
• Disasters in literature
• Literaturwissenschaft
• Ungeheuer
• katastrophē

Language

eng

Summary

"This book offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary society and its impact on the construction of social and political life. The theory is premised upon what the authors call "the sign continuum," where disaster spreads across society through efforts to evade social responsibility for its causes and consequences. Phenomena generated by such efforts include the social manifestation of monstrosity (disastrous people and other forms of living things) and an emerging antipolitics in an effort to assert rule and order. A crucial development is the attack on speech, a fundamental feature of political life, as manifested by the increased expectations of categories of people whose containment calls for shunning and silence. The book closes with an exploration of the significance of the mythic motif of eliminating monsters before dawn and its collapse in nihilistic times, where such conflicts now continue beyond dawn."--Jacket

Member of

• Radical imagination series
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

303.485

Index

index present

LC call number

D24.G754 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The radical imagination series