Catastrophes Gebunden

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 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 structure s. 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.