Jean-Michel Rabaté

Rust (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

It's happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. Rust takes on the many meanings of this oxidized substance, showing how technology bleeds into biology and ecology. Jean-Michel Rabate¿ combines art, science, and autobiography to share his fascination with peeling paints and rusty metal sheets. Rust, he
concludes, is a place where things living, built, and remembered commingle.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501329517
• Artikelnr.: 54258502

Autorenporträt

Jean-Michel Rabaté is one of the world's foremost literary theorists. He is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Rabaté has authored or edited more than thirty books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound, and Joyce. Recent books include Crimes of the Future (Bloomsbury, 2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Literature (2014), The Pathos of Distance (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Rust (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is one of the founders and curators of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia (slought.org) and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. Since 2008, he has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction1. How to Live with Global Rust2. Hegel and Ruskin, from the Inorganic to the Organic3. Interlude: Blood-work4. Rats and Jackals, Kafka after von Hofmannsthal5. Aesthetics of RustConclusion: Fougères to Marseilles: Green Rust or Edible Rouille?AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Rezensionen

Rabate counters our instinctively negative view of rust with a surprisingly wide variety of examples drawn from philosophy as well as the arts and sciences for a strikingly and broadly convincing argument as to the merits of rust . Rabate presents rust as an imperfection with unlimited possibilities. He clarifies its role in our lives and complicates how we value its role. He brings readers his family rouille recipe and the news that someday soon, science may give us a green rust capable of cleaning our water and soil . He provides plenty of food for thought as we run into these references across daily life. PopMatters