Last Things: Disastrous Form from Kant to Hujar

by Jacques Khalip

Book Overview

The arrival of the Anthropocene brings the suggestion that we are only now beginning to speculate on an inhuman world that is not for us, only now confronting fears and anxieties of ecological, political, social, and philosophical extinction. While pointing out that reflections on disaster were not foreign to what we historically call romanticism, Last Things pushes romantic thought toward an altogether new way of conceiving the "end of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823279553
• ISBN13: 9780823279555
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"