The Catastrophic Imperative Subjectivity, Time and Memory in Contemporary Thought

by Hoens, Dominiek; Jottkandt, Sigi; Buelens, Gert

• ISBN13: 9780230552852
• ISBN10: 0230552854
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Evoking the contemporaryZeitgeistof looming ecological, political and economic disaster, a distinguished group of thinkers invite a compelling reconsideration of the ways we, as representing subjects, might be more deeply implicated in catastrophic events than we ordinarily imagine.

Author Biography

DOMINIEK HOENS teaches philosophy of art at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium and is an advising researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands.

SIGI JOTTKANDT is a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy and the author of Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic.

GERT BUELENS is Associate Professor of English at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of several books, including Henry James and the Aliens: in Possession of the American Scene.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Who or What Decides For Derrida: A Catastrophic Theory of Decision	p. 9
Catastrophic Narratives and Why the "Catastrophe" to Catastrophe Might Have Already Happened	p. 26
Breath of Relief: Peter Sloterdijk and the Politics of the Intimate	p. 53
Man is a Swarm Animal	p. 83
Notes on the Bird War: Biopolitics of the Visible (in the Era of Climate Change)	p. 114
Dialectical Catastrophe: Hegel's Allegory of Physiognomy and the Ethics of Survival	p. 131
Catastrophe, Citationality and the Limits of Responsibility in Disgrace	p. 154
Unpredictable Inevitability and the Boundaries of Psychic Life	p. 171
Who is Nietzsche?	p. 195
Is Pleasure a Rotten Idea? Deleuze and Lacan on Pleasure and Jouissance	p. 205
Nationalist Ext(im)asy: Maurice Barrès and the Roots of Fascist Enjoyment	p. 236
Topography of the Border: Derrida Rewriting Transcendental Aesthetics	p. 261
Index	p. 283
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