The Catastrophic Imperative: Subjectivity, Time and Memory in Contemporary Thought

Evoking the contemporary Zeitgeist of looming ecological, political and economic disaster, a distinguished group of thinkers invite a compelling reconsideration of the ways we, as representing subjects, might be more deeply implicated in catastrophic events than we ordinarily imagine.

ALAIN BADIOU is Chair of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France BENJAMIN BIEBUYCK is Professor of German Literature, Ghent University, Belgium GIL CHAITIN is Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA JUSTIN CLEMENS is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Australia TOM COHEN is Professor of American literary, critical, and cinematic studies, the State University of New York, Albany, USA ORTWIN DE GRAEF is Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium JOANNA HODGE is Professor of Philosophy co-ordinating research at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK J. HILLIS MILLER is UCI Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, USA PATIENCE MOLL is currently Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK DANY NOBUS is Head of the School of Social Sciences and Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University, UK AARON SCHUSTER is a graduate of Amherst College, USA, and is currently completing his Ph.D. in philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium SJOERD VAN TUINEN is a researcher in the Department for Philosophy and Moral Science at Ghent University, Belgium ERIK VOGT is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, USA and Universitaets-Dozent for Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria