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  • Catastrophe and Philosophy

    by David J. Rosner, JeiDong Ryu, Kwon Jong Yoo, Steven Cresap, Diana Prokofyeva, David Wilkinson, Carsten Meiner, Phil Washburn, Robert Quist, Nancy Reale0, David Chalfin1, Pedro Geiger2, Marek Celinski3, Sarah K. Corrigan4, John Ross5, Peter W. Wakefield6 ...
    This book takes a different approach to the history of philosophy, exploring a neglected theme, the relationship between catastrophe and philosophy. The book analyzes this theme within texts from ancient times to the present, from a global perspective. The book’s focus is timely and relevant today, as the planet is certainly facing a number of impending catastrophes right now, e.g., environmental ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The Literary Beach

    History and Aesthetics of a Modern Topos

    Edited by Carsten Meiner, Katrine Helene Andersen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
    As a geo-historical place, the beach integrates a variety of characteristics and functions so multiple that they tend to contradict each other. The beach is both a place of work and trade but also of leisure; it is both a place of therapy and health but also of migration, war, and death; it is a place of mass tourism and boredom but also the place of experiencing the Other; it is a public place ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Mutating Idylls

    Uses and Misuses of the Locus Amoenus in European Literature, 1850–1930

    Edited by Carsten Meiner ...
    Series Book 139 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
    Mutating Idylls examines the surprising presence of the antique literary topos of the idyllic landscape, the locus amoenus, in European literature from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The book sets out to identify how this topos, which generally has no place in politically and socially realistic and naturalist literature, actually does have a role to play. Chapters on central nineteenth ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • Literature and Contingency

    Edited by Christina Lupton, Carsten Meiner ...
    This collection features leading literary critics and explores the role of language in thinking about the ways in which the world might be otherwise, and the history of contingency as a longstanding literary concept.The defining feature of contingency lies in the suggestion that things that have already happened might have been otherwise. Central to late twentieth century European critical and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD