Waste: A Philosophy of Things

✍ Scribed by William Viney

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
1 Introduction
2 Narrating the Event of Waste
3 Archaeologies of Waste
4 The Poetic Economies of T. S. Eliot
5 Reading Joycean Disjecta
6 Ruins Past
7 Ruins of the Future
8 Conclusion
Notes
Works cited
Index