The Catastrophic Imperative

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.

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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

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Notes On Contributors Introduction: B.Biebuyck, G.Buelens, O.de Graef, D.Hoens & S.Jöttkandt Who or What Decides: For Derrida: A Catastrophic Theory of Decision; J.Hillis Miller Catastrophic Narratives and Why the 'Catastrophe' to Catastrophe Might Have Already Happened; E.Vogt Breath of Relief: Sloterdijk and the Politics of the Intimate; S.van Tuinen Man is a swarm animal; J.Clemens Notes on the Bird War: Biopolitics of the Visible (in the Era of Climate Change); T.Cohen Dialectical Catastrophe: Hegel's Allegory of Physiognomy and the Ethics of Survival; P.Moll Catastrophe, Citationality and the Limits of Responsibility in Disgrace ; G.Buelens Unpredictable Inevitability and the Boundaries of Psychic Life; D.Nobus Who is Nietzsche?; A.Badiou Is Pleasure a Rotten Idea?; A.Schuster Nationalist Ext(im)asy: Maurice Barrès and the Roots of Fascist Enjoyment; G.Chaitin Topography of the Border: Derrida Rewriting Transcendental Aesthetics; J.Hodge Index