Horn The Future as Catastrophe

Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54795-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horn, Eva

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pakis, Valentine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Last Men
2. Catastrophe Without Event: Imagining Climate Disaster
3. Survival: The Biopolitics of Catastrophe
4. The Future of Things: Accidents and Technical Safety
5. The Paradoxes of Prediction
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Horn Eva:
Eva Horn (PhD, Political Theory, University of Konstanz; habilitation, Social and Cultural Sciences, Europa-Universitat Viadrina) is Professor of German and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna and Distinguished Visiting Max Kade Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia. She is the author of (in English translation) The Secret War: Treason, Espionage, and Modern Fiction (Northwestern, 2013) and (in German) Trauer schreiben: Die Toten im Text der Goethezeit (Fink, 1998).Eva Horn is professor of German literature and cultural history at the University of Vienna. She is the author of The Secret War: Treason, Espionage, and Modern Fiction (2013).