The time of catastrophe: multidisciplinary approaches to the age of catastrophe

Bringing together a distinguished, interdisciplinary group of scholars, this work develops a critical language for examining 'catastrophic time', recognising the central importance of, and offering a set of frameworks for, examining the alluring and elusive qualities of catastrophe.

Framed around the ideas of Agamben, Kant and Benjamin, and drawing on philosophy, history, law, political science, anthropology and the arts, it seeks to demonstrate how the question of 'catastrophic time' is in fact a question about something much more than the frequency of disasters in our so-called 'age of catastrophe'.