The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age

by Eva Horn

Book Overview

Why do we have the constant feeling that disaster is looming? Beyond the images of atomic apocalypse that have haunted us for decades, we are dazzled now by an array of possible catastrophe scenarios: climate change, financial crises, environmental disasters, technological meltdowns--perennial subjects of literature, film, popular culture, and political debate. Is this preoccupation with catastrophe questionable alarmism or complacent passivity?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231188633
• ISBN13: 9780231188630
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"