Waste: a philosophy of things
Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard is far from new -- it is integral to how we make, build and describe our lived environment. As this wide-ranging new study reveals, waste has been a polarizing topic for millennia and has been treated as a rich resource by artists, writers, philosophers and architects. Drawing on the works of Giorgio Agamben, T.S. Eliot, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, James Joyce, Bruno Lato…
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- Full title :Waste : a philosophy of things / William Viney
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Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard is far from new -- it is integral to how we make, build and describe our lived environment. As this wide-ranging new study reveals, waste has been a polarizing topic for millennia and has been treated as a rich resource by artists, writers, philosophers and architects. Drawing on the works of Giorgio Agamben, T.S. Eliot, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, James Joyce, Bruno Latour and many others, Waste: A Philosophy of Things investigates the complexities of waste in sculpture, literature and architecture. It traces a new philosophy of things from the ancient to the modern and will be of interest to those working in cultural and literary studies, archaeology, architecture and continental philosophy"
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- Publication Date:2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 218 s. : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781472527578, 1472527577
- oclc:ocn900352404
- LC Classification:TD793
- Dewey Decimal:363.72 801
Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Introduction Part I: Collecting Waste -- 2. Narrating the Event of Waste -- 3. Archaeologies of Waste Part II: Reading Waste -- 4. The Poetic Economies of T.S. Eliot -- 5. Reading Joycean Disjecta Part III: Building Ruins -- 6. Ruins Past -- 7. Ruins of the Future -- 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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