Lebovic N., Killen A. (eds.) Catastrophes: A History and Theory of an Operative Concept

Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014. — 209 p.Catastrophic scenarios control our contemporary mindset. Catastrophic events and predictions have spurred new interest in re-examining the history of earlier disasters and the social and conceptual resources they have mobilized. The essays gathered in this volume reconsider the history and theory of different catastrophes and their aftermath.The Storyteller and the Seismograph
Unity, Plasticity, Catastrophe: Order and Pathology in the Cybernetic Era
The Last Man: The Birth of Modern Apocalypse in Jean Paul, John Martin, and Lord Byron
Accidents happen: The Industrial Accident in Interwar Germany
German Jewish Judges and the Permanent State of Catastrophe
Ending Time and again in Ruins: Catastrophe and its Discontents in Jewish Theology
The Obscenity of Objectivity: Post-Holocaust Anti-Semitism and the Invention-Discovery of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Kata and/or Streiphen?: Climate Change and the Politics of Catastrophe
Anticipating the Climate Catastrophe
The Authors