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How to think about catastrophe : toward a theory of enlightened doomsaying

Title
How to think about catastrophe : toward a theory of enlightened doomsaying / Jean-Pierre Dupuy ; translated by M. B. DeBevoise and Mark R. Anspach.
Author
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre, 1941-
Publication
East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2023]

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Additional Authors
  • DeBevoise, M. B.
  • Anspach, Mark Rogin, 1959-
Description
xiii, 165 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"How to Think about Catastrophe argues that "only by making good use of [its ethical] faculty can humanity hope to curb its power over things and over itself--a power that is excessive and, above all, destructive.""--
Series Statement
Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
Uniform Title
  • Pour un catastrophisme éclairé. English
  • Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
Alternative Title
Pour un catastrophisme éclairé.
Subject
Catastrophical, The
Note
  • Translated from the French.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JFE 22-5206
ISBN
  • 9781611864366
  • 1611864364
LCCN
2021056064
OCLC
1287749469
Author
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre, 1941- author.
Title
How to think about catastrophe : toward a theory of enlightened doomsaying / Jean-Pierre Dupuy ; translated by M. B. DeBevoise and Mark R. Anspach.
Publisher
East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2023]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
DeBevoise, M. B., translator.
Anspach, Mark Rogin, 1959- translator.
Research Call Number
JFE 22-5206
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