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Of Divine Warning: Disaster in a Modern Age

Of Divine Warning: Disaster in a Modern Age


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This book offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary society and its impact on the construction of social and political life. The theory is premised upon what the authors call "the sign continuum," where disaster spreads across society through efforts to evade social responsibility for its causes and consequences. Phenomena generated by such efforts include the social manifestation of monstrosity (disastrous people and other forms of living things) and an emerging antipolitics in an effort to assert rule and order. A crucial development is the attack on speech, a fundamental feature of political life, as manifested by the increased expectations of categories of people whose containment calls for shunning and silence.

Table of Contents:
Beginning; Chapter 1 Signs; Chapter 2 Warnings; Chapter 3 Creatures; Chapter 4 Mute; Chapter 5 Ruin; Chapter 6 Dawn;

About the Author :
Jane Anna Gordon teaches in the Department of Political Science at Temple University, where she is an affiliate faculty member in Judaic Studies and Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies. She is coeditor most recently of Not Only the Master's Tools (Paradigm 2006).Lewis R. Gordon is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Judaic Studies and Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies at Temple University. He is the author most recently of Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times (Paradigm 2006).

Review :
"Readers may find this compact book (120 pages, excluding notes and bibliography) a challenging read as it employs complex arguments and research from a variety of academic fields like cultural studies, history, philosophy, and political science. However, I found its difficulty balanced well by its discussion of entertaining contemporary popular cultural topics and issues." --Political Affairs "Since the publication of Roland Barthes Mythology (1957) no one has attempted with equal rigor, erudition, creativity and elegance, to unveil the politics of current events through the signs and the monsters of popular imagination. . . . The argument is not just a tour-de-force. It is a radical shift in the geography of reasoning, argued with the calm and serenity of intellectual mastery." --Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781594515385
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Weight: 453 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1594515387
  • Publisher Date: 30 Oct 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Disaster in a Modern Age
  • Width: 138 mm


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