TY  - BOOK
AU  - Passannante,Gerard Paul
TI  - Catastrophizing: materialism and the making of disaster 
SN  - 9780226612355
AV  - BD375 .P37 2019eb
U1  - 146/.3 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Catastrophizing
KW  - Catastrophical, The
KW  - Catastrophical, The, in art
KW  - Catastrophical, The, in literature
KW  - Catastrophe (Philosophie)
KW  - Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans l'art
KW  - Catastrophe (Philosophie) dans la litt�erature
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - History & Surveys
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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