Waste : a philosophy of things / William Viney.
2014
TD793 .V56 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Waste : a philosophy of things / William Viney.
Author
Viney, William, author.
ISBN
9781472527578 hardcover
1472527577 hardcover
1472527577 hardcover
Published
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Language
English
Description
xi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Item Number
40023904559
Call Number
TD793 .V56 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.72/801
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-214) and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.