Destiny domesticated : the rebirth of tragedy out of the spirit of technology / / Jos de Mul ; with translation assistance from Bibi van den Berg |
Autore | Mul Jos de <1956-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
Disciplina | 190 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BergBibi van den |
Soggetto topico | Fate and fatalism - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4384-4973-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465141803321 |
Mul Jos de <1956-> | ||
Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Destiny domesticated : the rebirth of tragedy out of the spirit of technology / / Jos de Mul ; with translation assistance from Bibi van den Berg |
Autore | Mul Jos de <1956-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
Disciplina | 190 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BergBibi van den |
Soggetto topico | Fate and fatalism - History |
ISBN | 1-4384-4973-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789117203321 |
Mul Jos de <1956-> | ||
Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Destiny domesticated : the rebirth of tragedy out of the spirit of technology / / Jos de Mul ; with translation assistance from Bibi van den Berg |
Autore | Mul Jos de <1956-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
Disciplina | 190 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BergBibi van den |
Soggetto topico | Fate and fatalism - History |
ISBN | 1-4384-4973-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823455703321 |
Mul Jos de <1956-> | ||
Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fate and fortune in European thought, ca. 1400-1650 / / edited by Ovanes Akopyan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 123 |
Collana | Brill's studies in intellectual history |
Soggetto topico | Fate and fatalism - History |
ISBN | 90-04-45996-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | List of Illustrations -- Note on Contributors -- Introduction: Not Simple Twists of Fate / Ovanes Akopyan -- Part 1: The Concept of Fate in Philosophy and Theology -- 1 Renaissance Consolations: Philosophical Remedies for Fate and Fortune / John Sellars -- 2 Coluccio Salutati and the Humanist Critique of Fate / Paul Richard Blum -- 3 Fate, Providence, and Fortuna in Giordano Bruno's Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast / Elisabeth Blum -- 4 Fortune and Fate in the Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655): Balancing between Freedom and Necessity / Jo Coture -- Part 2: Political and Social Context -- 5 Fate and Fortune in Machiavelli's Anatomy of the Body Politic / Guido Giglioni -- 6 "Fortune is a Mistresse": Figures of Fortune in English Renaissance Poetry / Orlando Reade -- 7 The Game of Art and Chance: Lottery, Fortune, and Fatum in the Low Countries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Sophie Raux -- Part 3: Artistic Considerations -- 8 Renaissance Iconology of Fate / Damiano Acciarino -- 9 Fortune, Fate and Providential Design in Georges de La Tour / Dalia Judovitz -- 10 Ptolemy, Fortune, and Politics: A Case of the Reception of Western Scholarship in Early Modern Russia / Ovanes Akopyan -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794672603321 |
Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fate and fortune in European thought, ca. 1400-1650 / / edited by Ovanes Akopyan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 123 |
Collana | Brill's studies in intellectual history |
Soggetto topico | Fate and fatalism - History |
ISBN | 90-04-45996-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | List of Illustrations -- Note on Contributors -- Introduction: Not Simple Twists of Fate / Ovanes Akopyan -- Part 1: The Concept of Fate in Philosophy and Theology -- 1 Renaissance Consolations: Philosophical Remedies for Fate and Fortune / John Sellars -- 2 Coluccio Salutati and the Humanist Critique of Fate / Paul Richard Blum -- 3 Fate, Providence, and Fortuna in Giordano Bruno's Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast / Elisabeth Blum -- 4 Fortune and Fate in the Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655): Balancing between Freedom and Necessity / Jo Coture -- Part 2: Political and Social Context -- 5 Fate and Fortune in Machiavelli's Anatomy of the Body Politic / Guido Giglioni -- 6 "Fortune is a Mistresse": Figures of Fortune in English Renaissance Poetry / Orlando Reade -- 7 The Game of Art and Chance: Lottery, Fortune, and Fatum in the Low Countries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Sophie Raux -- Part 3: Artistic Considerations -- 8 Renaissance Iconology of Fate / Damiano Acciarino -- 9 Fortune, Fate and Providential Design in Georges de La Tour / Dalia Judovitz -- 10 Ptolemy, Fortune, and Politics: A Case of the Reception of Western Scholarship in Early Modern Russia / Ovanes Akopyan -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809479303321 |
Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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