{"product_id":"disastrous-subjectivities-romaniticism-modernity-and-the-real-hardback-9781487506148","title":"Disastrous Subjectivities; Romaniticism, Modernity, and the Real (Hardback) 9781487506148","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDisastrous Subjectivities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRomaniticism, Modernity, and the Real\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Collings (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487506148\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 September 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.5 x 2 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn sharply original readings of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, \u003ci\u003eDisastrous Subjectivities \u003c\/i\u003eexplores modernity\u0026amp;#x2019;s failed promise to bring about a just social order under the ongoing threat of climate change. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on Kantian critical philosophy and Lacanian theory, this book traverses aspects of the history of science, the form of the novel, the limits of historicism, and the impasses of moral autonomy. What passes for modernity takes shape not as truly modern or secular, but instead as a mode perpetually haunted by a traumatic sublime. The demand to realize justice within history turns out to require more than history can make possible, and more than the subject can bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Catastrophic Benevolence, Ruinous Immortality: Wollstonecraft\u0026amp;#x2019;s Shipwreck\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Prohibiting the Impossible: Godwin and the Formation of the Real \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. After the Covenant: Undead Subjectivity in Wordsworth\u0026amp;#x2019;s Alpine Sublime \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Trusting to the Billows: Byron\u0026amp;#x2019;s Poetics of the Real \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Tarrying with Disaster: Ethical Destitution in Shelley\u0026amp;#x2019;s \"The Triumph of Life\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoda: Melting the Sublime: Disastrous Objectivity in the Era of Climate Change\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595480396056,"sku":"9781487506148","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/disastrous-subjectivities-romaniticism-modernity-and-the-real-hardback-9781487506148","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}