Destiny domesticated : the rebirth of tragedy out of the spirit of technology / / Jos de Mul ; with translation assistance from Bibi van den Berg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465141803321
• Autore: Mul Jos de <1956->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-4384-4973-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BergBibi van den
• Disciplina: 190
• Soggetti: Fate and fatalism - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Originally published as De domesticatie van het noodlot : de wedergeboorte van de tragedie uit de geest van de technologie c2006 Klement & Pelckmans."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue""; ""When Fate Knocks""; ""Europeâ€?The Tragic Continent""; ""Prometheus Bound""; ""Fatal Signs""; ""1. Destiny Domesticated""; ""The Bijlmer Plane Crash""; ""Necessity and Chance""; ""Tragic, Christian, and Modern Providence""; ""Living with Fate""; ""2. Chance Living""; ""“Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here?â€?""; ""Accidental and Contingent Chance""; ""Uncontrollable Fate""; ""The Fragility of Happiness""; ""3. Fatal Politics""; ""Between Athens and Jerusalem""; ""The Birth of Tragedy""; ""From Antigone to Hirsi Ali""; ""Sublime Suffering""""4. The (Non-)Reproducibility of the Tragic""; ""The Death of Tragedy""; ""Christian and Modern “Eliminationâ€? of the Tragic""; ""The (Post)Modern Resurrection of the Tragic""; ""Tragic Repetition with a Difference""; ""5. The Art of Suffering""; ""The Sadist Universe""; ""Fear, Pity, Catharsis""; ""Sublimating the Sublime""; ""The Lust of Suffering""; ""6. Awesome Technologies""; ""Ode to Man""; ""Technological Ambivalence""; ""Affirmation beyond Optimism and Pessimism""; ""Tragic Technologies""; ""7. Tragic Parenthood""; ""The Savanna Case""; ""Medeaâ€?s Daimon""; ""The Schizophrenia of the Modern Concept of Man""""Inevitable Blame""; ""8. Fateful Machines""; ""The Morality of “Ourâ€? ; Computers""; ""Relativizing Ethics""; ""Acting Machines""; ""The Tragic Ethics of the Cyborg""; ""9. Exodus""; ""The Rebirth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Technology""; ""Prometheus Unbound""; ""Between Satyr and Cyborg""; ""The Possibility of an Island""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Name Index""; ""Subject Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: "An analysis of contemporay technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy"--Provided by publisher.