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The end of meaning : studies in catastrophe

By Matthew , Gumpert

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year
2012
ISBN
1-4438-3915-9, 978-1-4438-3915-0, 9781443839433, 1443839434
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3097570 bytes)
Pages
497\576
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

The specter of the apocalypse has always been a semiotic fantasy: only at the end of all things will their true meaning be revealed. Our long romance with catastrophe is inseparable from the Western hermeneutical tradition: our search for an elusive truth, one that can only be uncovered through the interminable work of interpretation. Catastrophe terrifies and tantalizes to the extent it promises an end to this task. 9/11 is this book s beginning, but not its end. Here, it seemed, was the apocalypse America had long been waiting for; until it became just another event. And, indeed, the real lesson of 9/11 may be that catastrophe is the purest form of the event

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