Waste: A Philosophy of Things Contributor(s): Viney, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472527577 ISBN-13: 9781472527578 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Dewey: 363.728 |
LCCN: 2013047464 |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.13 lbs) 240 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard is far from new -- it is integral to how we make, build and describe our lived environment. As this wide-ranging new study reveals, waste has been a polarizing topic for millennia and has been treated as a rich resource by artists, writers, philosophers and architects. Drawing on the works of Giorgio Agamben, T.S. Eliot, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, James Joyce, Bruno Latour and many others, Waste: A Philosophy of Things investigates the complexities of waste in sculpture, literature and architecture. It traces a new philosophy of things from the ancient to the modern and will be of interest to those working in cultural and literary studies, archaeology, architecture and continental philosophy. |