Catastrophizing : materialism and the making of disaster /
Passannante, Gerard Paul, 1978-
Catastrophizing : materialism and the making of disaster / Gerard Passannante. - 1 online resource (1 volume)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: catastrophizing: a beginner's guide -- Leonardo's disasters -- Earthquakes of the mind -- Shakespeare's catastrophic "anything" -- The earthquake and the microscope -- Disaster before the sublime; or, Kant's catastrophes -- Afterword: catastrophizing in the age of climate change.
When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination that defined the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern period. Reaching back to the time between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Passannante traces a history of catastrophizing through literary and philosophical encounters with materialism - the view that the world is composed of nothing but matter.
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Catastrophizing.
Catastrophical, The.
Catastrophical, The, in art.
Catastrophical, The, in literature.
Catastrophe (Philosophie)
Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans l'art.
Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans la litt�erature.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--General.
Catastrophical, The
Catastrophical, The, in art
Catastrophical, The, in literature
Catastrophizing
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Catastrophizing : materialism and the making of disaster / Gerard Passannante. - 1 online resource (1 volume)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: catastrophizing: a beginner's guide -- Leonardo's disasters -- Earthquakes of the mind -- Shakespeare's catastrophic "anything" -- The earthquake and the microscope -- Disaster before the sublime; or, Kant's catastrophes -- Afterword: catastrophizing in the age of climate change.
When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination that defined the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern period. Reaching back to the time between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Passannante traces a history of catastrophizing through literary and philosophical encounters with materialism - the view that the world is composed of nothing but matter.
9780226612355 022661235X
21FA509F-12A4-4BB4-9182-6314386D5DB5 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
GBB970709 bnb
019360808 Uk
Catastrophizing.
Catastrophical, The.
Catastrophical, The, in art.
Catastrophical, The, in literature.
Catastrophe (Philosophie)
Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans l'art.
Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans la litt�erature.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--General.
Catastrophical, The
Catastrophical, The, in art
Catastrophical, The, in literature
Catastrophizing
BD375 / .P37 2019eb
146/.3