A short treatise on the metaphysics of tsunamis / / Jean-Pierre Dupuy ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise
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| Autore: |
Dupuy Jean-Pierre
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| Titolo: |
A short treatise on the metaphysics of tsunamis / / Jean-Pierre Dupuy ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise
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| Pubblicazione: | East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (92 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 551.4637 |
| Soggetto topico: | Disasters - Philosophy |
| Persona (resp. second.): | DeBevoiseM. B. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-78)and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; A Note on the Translation; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Genesis; Chapter 2. From Lisbon to Sumatra; Chapter 3. The Naturalization of Evil; Chapter 4. The Problem of Future Catastrophe; Appendix. Japan, 2011; Notes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 1755 the city of Lisbon was destroyed by a terrible earthquake. Almost 250 years later, an earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a tsunami whose devastating effects were felt over a vast area. In each case, a natural catastrophe came to be interpreted as a consequence of human evil. Between these two events, two indisputably moral catastrophes occurred: Auschwitz and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And yet the nuclear holocaust survivors likened the horror they had suffered to a natural disaster-a tsunami. Jean-Pierre Dupuy asks whether, from Lisbon to Sumatra, mankind has r |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A short treatise on the metaphysics of tsunamis |
| ISBN: | 1-62895-244-X |
| 1-60917-472-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826913503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.