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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795742003321

Autore

Dupuy Jean-Pierre <1941->

Titolo

How to Think about Catastrophe : Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying / / Jean-Pierre Dupuy, translated by M. B. DeBevoise and Mark R. Anspach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

1-60917-706-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 pages)

Collana

Studies in Violence, Mimesis and Culture Series

Disciplina

133.3

Soggetti

Catastrophical, The

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.""--