Contaminations: Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science and Film

ISBN-13: 9781474425599 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str.

Michael Mack

Opis

Combining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects of Henry James s, H. Melville s and H. G. Wells s novels question notions of natural order as well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective.

Spis treści

Introduction: Climate Change and the Contamination of the Anthropocene; 1. Contaminating Psychology with Biology: Descartes, Spinoza, Freud, and Žižek; 2. Contaminating the Visible with the Invisible: from Einstein via H. G. Wells to Hannah Arendt, Luhmann and Derrida; 3. Contamination of Nature with Society: the collapse of natural order from Melville to Wells and Ellison; 4. Contaminating Judgement with its Suspension: Guilt and Punishment in Walter Benjamin, Herman Melville & Henry James; 5. Contaminating the Digital: Action & Perception in Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock; 6. Contaminating the Sacred with the Profane: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bio-politics; 7. Contaminating Posthumanism.