Destiny domesticated : the rebirth of tragedy out of the spirit of technology / / Jos de Mul ; with translation assistance from Bibi van den Berg
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| Autore: |
Mul Jos de <1956->
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| Titolo: |
Destiny domesticated : the rebirth of tragedy out of the spirit of technology / / Jos de Mul ; with translation assistance from Bibi van den Berg
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 190 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fate and fatalism - History |
| Altri autori: |
BergBibi van den
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| 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""; ""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"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "An analysis of contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy"--Provided by publisher. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Destiny domesticated |
| ISBN: | 1-4384-4973-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789117203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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