Sidney Dekker

The End of Heaven (eBook, PDF)

Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age

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Produktbeschreibung

In this unique book, Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better for explaining why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually makes it harder to explain why we suffer. Accidents and disasters have become technical problems without inherent purpose. When told of a disaster, we easily feel lost in the steely emptiness of technical languages of engineering or medicine. Or, in our drive to pinpoint the source of suffering, we succumb to the hunt for a scapegoat, possibly inflicting even greater suffering on others around us. Broad in its historical sweep and ambition, The End of Heaven is also Dekker's most personal book to date.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351819213
• Artikelnr.: 49271246

Autorenporträt

Sidney Dekker is Professor of Humanities and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia, an institution founded on a commitment to social justice. He holds two Dutch degrees in psychology and a PhD (1996) in cognitive systems engineering from the Ohio State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter 1. Disaster, religion and science Chapter 2. Son of a
preacherwoman Chapter 3. The entitled class Chapter 4. Existential dread
Chapter 5. Human error Chapter 6. A question of faith Chapter 7. Killing
death Chapter 8. Returning to dust Chapter 9. Grief without a god
Chapter10. The end of death Chapter11. Resurrecting heaven Coda
Bibliography Notes