William Viney

Waste (eBook, PDF)

A Philosophy of Things

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472530011
• Artikelnr.: 40774659

Autorenporträt

William Viney is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English Studies and Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, UK.