Screen LibraryHow to think about catastrophe : toward a theory of enlightened doomsaying /
"How to Think about Catastrophe argues that "only by making good use of [its ethical] faculty can humanity hope to curb its power over things and over itself--a power that is excessive and, above all, destructive.""--
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Michigan State University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | East Lansing, Michigan : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
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Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
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| Summary: |
"How to Think about Catastrophe argues that "only by making good use of [its ethical] faculty can humanity hope to curb its power over things and over itself--a power that is excessive and, above all, destructive.""-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781611864366 1611864364 |
| Index Number: | BD375 |
| CLC: | X4-05 |
| Call Number: | X4-05/D945 |
| Contents: | Risk and fatality. A singular point of view ; Sacrifice, counterproductivity, and ethics, or the logic of the detour ; Fate, risk, and responsibility ; The autonomy of technology ; Doomsaying on trial -- The limits of economic rationality. Precaution, between risk and uncertainty ; The veil of ignorance and moral luck ; Knowing is not believing -- The limits of moral philosophy and the necessity of metaphysics. Memory of the future ; Predicting the future in order to change it (Jonah vs. Jonas) ; Projected time and occurring time ; The rationality of doomsaying. |