Evoking the contemporary Zeitgeist of looming ecological, political
and economic disaster, The Catastrophic Imperative brings together
a distinguished group of thinkers who invite a compelling
reconsideration of the ways we, as representing subjects, might be
more deeply implicated in catastrophic events than we ordinarily
imagine. From their individual historical, philosophical,
psychoanalytic and literary perspectives, the contributors
collectively put a non-eschatological thought of catastrophe to
task. What emerges from this forcing ground is a logic that
undermines our habitual understanding of causality, charging us
with the disconcerting responsibility not to prevent but, in Jean
Dupuy's immortal words, to render the catastrophe unavoidable.
Contributing major new essays on Kant, Hegel, Derrida, Lacan,
Badiou, i ek, Deleuze, James, Coetzee, Barres and Hitchcock, this
collection also marks the long-overdue introduction of renowned
German philosopher, Peter Sloterdijk, to the English-speaking
world.
Contributors: Alain Badiou, Gert Buelens, Gil Chaitin, Justic
Clemens, Tom Cohen, Joanna Hodge, J. Hillis Miller, Patience Moll,
Dany Nobus, Aaron Schuster, Sjoerd van Tuinen and Eric Vogt.
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