Contaminations : : Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science and Film / / Michael Mack.
Introduces the figure of contamination as alternative to dialecticsListen to a podcast on Contaminations by the author.This book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity. It ex...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Climate Change and the Contamination of the Anthropocene
- 1 Contaminating Psychology with Biology: Descartes, Spinoza, Freud and Žižek
- 2 Contaminating the Visible with the Invisible: From Einstein via H. G. Wells to Hannah Arendt, Luhmann and Derrida
- 3 Contamination of Nature with Society: The Collapse of Natural Order from Melville to Wells and Ellison
- 4 Contaminating Judgement with its Suspension: Guilt and Punishment in Walter Benjamin, Herman Melville and Henry James
- 5 Contaminating the Digital: Action and Perception in Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock
- 6 Contaminating the Sacred with the Profane: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Biopolitics
- 7 Contaminating Posthumanism
- Bibliography
- Index