Name: Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development: Rekindling Faust's Humanism (en Inglés)
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Author: Pupavac, Vanessa ; Pupavac, Mladen
ISBN: 9781538144930

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Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development: Rekindling Faust's Humanism (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Vanessa Pupavac

Mladen Pupavac

Editorial

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

312

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x2.1 cm

Peso

0.63 kg.

ISBN13

9781538144930

Categorías

Europa
Ciencias políticas y teoría

Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development: Rekindling Faust's Humanism (en Inglés)

Vanessa Pupavac (Autor) · Mladen Pupavac (Autor) · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers · Tapa Dura

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Goethe's 1832 poem Faust offers a vision of humanity realising freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European humanist aspirations to build free and prosperous national political communities protected from natural disasters. Faust stories emerged in early modern Europe linked to the shaking of the traditional religious and political order, and the pursuit of new areas of human knowledge and activity which led to a shift from viewing disasters as acts of God to acts of nature. Faust's dam building and land reclamation project in Goethe's poem was inspired by Dutch hydro-engineering and in turn inspired others. Faustian dreams of an engineered future were pursued by the American Yugoslav inventor Nikola Tesla and the country of his birth towards establishing its national independence and escaping the fate of being a borderland. Faust remains a compelling reference point to explore European visions of disaster and development. If Faust captured the European spirit of earlier centuries, what is today's outlook? Ambitious Faustian development visions to eradicate natural disasters have been replaced by anti-Faustian risk cosmopolitanism sceptical towards human activity in ways counter to building collective protection from disaster. Tesla's country of birth fears returning to being an insecure borderland of Europe. This powerful and timely book calls for a rekindling of European humanism and Faust's vision of 'free people standing on free land'.