Walter Francois: Katastrofe

Name: Katastrofe
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Author: Walter Francois

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Author: Walter Francois
Publisher: Akademska knjiga
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 41305

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Katastrofe

Walter Francois

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Walter Francois: Catastrophe

A cultural history from the 16th to the 21st century

Since the seventies of the 20th century, "risk" has been one of the ways of dealing with the indefinite uncertainty that engulfs our world. Until then, the term "disaster" was sufficient to understand different individual cases of crisis outbreaks. From accidents to plagues, from misfortunes to penance, the West presented disasters to itself according to a complex mechanism whose ramifications are explored by Francois Walter. Why was the classical age so afraid of the passing of comets and their predictions? What drives the Age of Enlightenment to be fascinated by scenes of volcanic eruptions. Is the 19th century really a Promethean age, since it seems to be coming to terms with a series of industrial and mining disasters? And what can we say about the impotence of the last century in the face of absolute moral catastrophes - Auschwitz and Hiroshima? Instead of following the reductionist scheme by which we supposedly passed from a society of fatality to a society of safety, the author tries to measure the contribution of images and discourse to the creation of an anxiogenic climate. He shows how the culture of risk is always fueled by symbolic sources, and even more so when the world is ruled by the ideology of caution and sustainable development, in the shadow of the announced ecological disaster.

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