After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes - Hardcover

Nancy, Jean-Luc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082326338X ISBN 13: 9780823263387

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2014

Synopsis

In this book, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes in the era of globalization and technology. Can a catastrophe be an isolated occurrence? Is there such a thing as a “natural” catastrophe when all of our technologies―nuclear energy, power supply, water supply―are necessarily implicated, drawing together the biological, social, economic, and political? Nancy examines these questions and more. Exclusive to this English edition are two interviews with Nancy conducted by Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Yuji Nishiyama and Yotetsu Tonaki.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including Expectation: Philosophy, Literature; The Possibility of a World; The Banality of Heidegger; The Disavowed Community; and, with Adèle Van Reeth, Coming (all Fordham).

Review:

“A powerful reflection on our times, our condition, and the fate of our civilization,
as revealed by the catastrophe of Fukushima.”

(―François Raffoul Louisiana State University)

“Leave it to Jean-Luc Nancy to take an event like the Fukushima nuclear
disaster and turn it into an occasion for rethinking the essence of capitalism,
globalization, the fate of the Earth, and the future of democracy.”

(―Michael Naas DePaul University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 082326338X
• ISBN 13: 9780823263387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 72