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04 Oct 2012
TL;DR: The Culture of Disaster as discussed by the authors explores the way writers, thinkers, and artists have responded to the increasingly political concept of disaster from the Enlightenment until today, arguing that post-Enlightenment culture has been haunted by the sense of emergency that made natural catastrophes and human deeds both a collective crisis and a personal tragedy.
Abstract: From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared responsibility for the damages caused by a violent universe. This far-ranging book explores the way writers, thinkers, and artists have responded to the increasingly political concept of disaster from the Enlightenment until today. Marie-Helene Huet argues that post-Enlightenment culture has been haunted by the sense of emergency that made natural catastrophes and human deeds both a collective crisis and a personal tragedy. From the plague of 1720 to the cholera of 1832, from shipwrecks to film dystopias, disasters raise questions about identity and memory, technology, control, and liability. In her analysis, Huet considers anew the mythical figures of Medusa and Apollo, theories of epidemics, earthquakes, political crises, and films such as "Blow-Up" and "Blade Runner". With its scope and precision, "The Culture of Disaster" will appeal to a wide public interested in modern culture, philosophy, and intellectual history.
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TL;DR: The concept of communication absorbs the ideals of cognition and action traditionally defined in opposition to each other as discussed by the authors, and the result is a novel set of definitions of key philosophical terms, such as rationality is now the ability of a speaker to express arguments.
Abstract: Modern intellectual history presents us with two great philosophies. One of them is well expressed by Descartes in his Discourse on Method, the other by Marx in the eleventh thesis on Feuerbach. The former beckons us to understand, the latter to act. In the formulation of Arthur Danto, "Either we conceive of ourselves primarily as cognizers, concerned to fit our representations to the world, or as agents, concerned to fit the world to our representations."' But both conceptions, as Danto observes, have the same components: (1) the individual subject who exists vis-a'-vis a world of obj ects and (2) representation, or a relation of correspondence between this subject's ideas and the world.2 Among recent philosopher-historians, Jurgen Habermas is of special interest because of his effort to sustain a wholly different vision of things. In this vision, the concept of communication absorbs the ideals of cognition and action traditionally defined in opposition to each other. The result is a novel set of definitions of key philosophical terms. Rationality is now the ability of a speaker to express arguments
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TL;DR: The ambivalence of the idea of equality in the French enlightenment is discussed in this paper, where the authors present a survey of the history of European ideas and its evolution in the 20th century.
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