Catastrophizing
Materialism and the Making of Disaster
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

List of Illustrations
Introduction. Catastrophizing: A Beginner’s Guide
1. Leonardo’s Disasters
2. Earthquakes of the Mind
3. Shakespeare’s Catastrophic “Anything”
4. The Earthquake and the Microscope
5. Disaster before the Sublime; or, Kant’s Catastrophes
Afterword. Catastrophizing in the Age of Climate Change
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
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Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Philosophy: History and Classic Works
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