The Resource The culture of disaster, Marie-Helene Huet
The culture of disaster, Marie-Helene Huet
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The item The culture of disaster, Marie-Helene Huet represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
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- Summary
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- From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared responsibility for the damages caused by a violent universe. This far-ranging book explores the way writers, thinkers, and artists have responded to the increasingly political concept of disaster from the Enlightenment until today
- Marie-Ȟln̈e Huet argues that post-Enlightenment culture has been haunted by the sense of emergency that made natural catastrophes and human deeds both a collective crisis and a personal tragedy. From the plague of 1720 to the cholera of 1832, from shipwrecks to film dystopias, disasters raise questions about identity and memory, technology, control, and liability. In her analysis, Huet considers anew the mythical figures of Medusa and Apollo, theories of epidemics, earthquakes, political crises, and films such as Blow-Up and Blade Runner. With its scope and precision, The Culture of Disaster will appeal to a wide public interested in modern culture, philosophy, and intellectual history
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- pages
- Contents
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- Acts of God, deeds of men
- Enlightenment and the plague
- The silence of Lisbon (1755)
- The reign of cholera (1832)
- Political disasters, time in ruins
- Losing Rome (Rousseau)
- Nightwatch: terror and time
- The politics of mortality
- Tall ships and falling stars
- The face of chaos (Medusa)
- The sphinx of the ice fields
- The culture of disaster
- Now playing everywhere
- Isbn
- 9780226358215
- Label
- The culture of disaster
- Title
- The culture of disaster
- Statement of responsibility
- Marie-Helene Huet
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared responsibility for the damages caused by a violent universe. This far-ranging book explores the way writers, thinkers, and artists have responded to the increasingly political concept of disaster from the Enlightenment until today
- Marie-Ȟln̈e Huet argues that post-Enlightenment culture has been haunted by the sense of emergency that made natural catastrophes and human deeds both a collective crisis and a personal tragedy. From the plague of 1720 to the cholera of 1832, from shipwrecks to film dystopias, disasters raise questions about identity and memory, technology, control, and liability. In her analysis, Huet considers anew the mythical figures of Medusa and Apollo, theories of epidemics, earthquakes, political crises, and films such as Blow-Up and Blade Runner. With its scope and precision, The Culture of Disaster will appeal to a wide public interested in modern culture, philosophy, and intellectual history
- Cataloging source
- ICU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Huet, Marie-Hélène
- Dewey number
- 363.34
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- D24
- LC item number
- .H77 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Disasters
- World politics
- Disasters in literature
- Disasters
- World politics
- Disasters in literature
- Label
- The culture of disaster, Marie-Helene Huet
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Acts of God, deeds of men -- Enlightenment and the plague -- The silence of Lisbon (1755) -- The reign of cholera (1832) -- Political disasters, time in ruins -- Losing Rome (Rousseau) -- Nightwatch: terror and time -- The politics of mortality -- Tall ships and falling stars -- The face of chaos (Medusa) -- The sphinx of the ice fields -- The culture of disaster -- Now playing everywhere
- Control code
- 769010848
- Dimensions
- cm.
- Extent
- pages
- Isbn
- 9780226358215
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2011050731
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)769010848
- Label
- The culture of disaster, Marie-Helene Huet
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Acts of God, deeds of men -- Enlightenment and the plague -- The silence of Lisbon (1755) -- The reign of cholera (1832) -- Political disasters, time in ruins -- Losing Rome (Rousseau) -- Nightwatch: terror and time -- The politics of mortality -- Tall ships and falling stars -- The face of chaos (Medusa) -- The sphinx of the ice fields -- The culture of disaster -- Now playing everywhere
- Control code
- 769010848
- Dimensions
- cm.
- Extent
- pages
- Isbn
- 9780226358215
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2011050731
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)769010848
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