| Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age Contributor(s): Gordon, Jane Anna (Author), Gordon, Lewis R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594515387 ISBN-13: 9781594515385 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $228.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Social - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 303.485 |
| LCCN: 2009014136 |
| Series: Radical Imagination |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (0.79 lbs) 192 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |