Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. The Storyteller and the Seismograph 15
5. “Unity, Plasticity, Catastrophe: Order and Pathology in the Cybernetic Era” 32
6. The Last Man: The Birth of Modern Apocalypse in Jean Paul, John Martin, and Lord Byron 55
7. Accidents happen: The Industrial Accident in Interwar Germany 75
8. German Jewish Judges and the Permanent State of Catastrophe 93
9. Ending Time and again in Ruins: Catastrophe and its Discontents in Jewish Theology 111
10. The Obscenity of Objectivity: Post-Holocaust Anti-Semitism and the Invention-Discovery of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 128
11. Kata and/or Streiphen?: Climate Change and the Politics of Catastrophe 156
12. Anticipating the Climate Catastrophe 181
13. Conclusion 197
14. The Authors 199