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"In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually makes it harder to explain why we suffer. Accidents and disasters have become tech…
"In this illuminating book, Dutch philosopher Floris van den Berg suggests this compelling thought experiment as a way of inviting readers to take a moral journey, which in turn leads to an inconvenient evaluation of the way most of us live. He proposes a new perspective, called…
Forgetting Lot's Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the 20th century.
Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot?s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments…
"This edition replaces the earlier translation by Walter Lowrie that appeared under the title The Concept of Dread. Along with The Sickness unto Death, the work reflects from a psychological point of view Søren Kierkegaard's longstanding concern with the Socratic maxim, "Know yo…
