03577nam 2200577 450 991046514180332120200520144314.01-4384-4973-9(CKB)3710000000086902(EBL)3408837(SSID)ssj0001114219(PQKBManifestationID)12490508(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001114219(PQKBWorkID)11073465(PQKB)10068301(MiAaPQ)EBC3408837(OCoLC)869735729(MdBmJHUP)muse31920(Au-PeEL)EBL3408837(CaPaEBR)ebr10833674(OCoLC)921232748(EXLCZ)99371000000008690220130502d2014 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDestiny domesticated the rebirth of tragedy out of the spirit of technology /Jos de Mul ; with translation assistance from Bibi van den BergAlbany :State University of New York Press,2014.1 online resource (358 p.)"Originally published as De domesticatie van het noodlot : de wedergeboorte van de tragedie uit de geest van de technologie c2006 Klement & Pelckmans."1-4384-4971-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue""; ""When Fate Knocks""; ""Europe�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?�""; ""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 “Elimination� 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""; ""Medea�s Daimon""""The Schizophrenia of the Modern Concept of Man""""Inevitable Blame""; ""8. Fateful Machines""; ""The Morality of “Our� 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"""An analysis of contemporay technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy"--Provided by publisher.Fate and fatalismHistoryElectronic books.Fate and fatalismHistory.190Mul Jos de1956-1048657Berg Bibi van den1048658MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465141803321Destiny domesticated2477080UNINA