| Trauma, History, Philosophy (with Feature Essays by Agnes Heller and György Màrkus) Contributor(s): Noonan, Murray (Editor), Sharpe, Matthew (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1847183786 ISBN-13: 9781847183781 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $58.36 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Violence In Society - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 303.622 |
| LCCN: 2008425524 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.2" (1.95 lbs) 350 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the age of the war on terror and what one critic has called 'disaster capitalism', the topic of trauma has assumed renewed cultural relevance. Trauma, Historicity, Philosophy is a collection of essays by Australian philosophers, psychoanalysts, and cultural theorists on the genealogy, semantics, and relevance of the concept of 'trauma' in the contemporary world. The collection features two essays by Agnes Heller and Gyorgy Markus addressing trauma, and what psychoanalysis' elevation of 'trauma' to cultural centrality means (and has meant) for modern philosophy and social theory. Other essays address '911', cyber-terrorism, the shoah, political tyranny, the 'end of history', and engage with the thought of Kierkegaard, Schmitt, Hobbes, Derrida, Agamben, Badiou, Zizek, Lacan and Freud. |