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From One Crisis to the Next: Essays on the Precariousness of the World book cover

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From One Crisis to the Next Essays on the Precariousness of the World

Edited By Costică Brădăţan, Camil Ungureanu Copyright 2027
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge
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Everything seems to be in ‘a state of crisis’ these days: democracy and the economy, the arts and humanities, how we deal with others and nature and the human condition itself. Things have become so critical that the word ‘crisis’ no longer suffices—we now speak of ‘polycrisis’ and ‘metacrisis,’ signalling both our predicament's severity and our inability to address it properly. This... Read more

Editor’s Note

Costică Brădăţan and Camil Ungureanu

 

Introduction: Crisis as a Way of Life

Costică Brădăţan and Camil Ungureanu

 

I. On Crisis – Broadly Speaking

1. The Humanism Crisis

Joan Ramon Resina

 

2. Reconsidering the Context of Crisis: A Response from Early Chinese Thought

Paul J. D’Ambrosio and Daniel J. Sarafinas

 

3. Regimes of Crisis

Miguel de Beistegui

 

II Philosophy of/in Crisis

4. Philosophy at a Crossroads

Amador Vega and Elizabeth Sarah Coles

 

5. Substance Abuse: Addiction and Crisis in Wittgenstein

Anthony Curtis Adler

 

6. The Culturally Educated Spirit and its Fate: Hegel, Diderot, and the Futures of Crises

Richard Eldridge

 

III The Art of Crisis

7. Apocalypse: Existential Crisis and/or Catharsis

Robbie B.H. Goh

 

8. Cristi Puiu and Vladimir Solovyov: Evil, Death, and Crisis in Malmkrog

Camil Ungureanu

 

9. “Something Completely Mad and Extraordinary”: Crisis, Love, and Artistic Creation in Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre?

Sonia Arribas and Irene Valle Corpas

 

IV. Crisis Politics. Three Case Studies

10. Kuwait’s Modernity in Crisis: Phantasms and Memory

Mai Al-Nakib

 

11. Harnessing Ignorance?: Resources for Action and Resistance During the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis in Nigeria

Adriana Mica, Gertrude J. Fraser, Bashir Bello, Mikołaj Pawlak and Paweł Kubicki

 

12. The Crisis of No Crisis

Mark C. Taylor

Biography

Costică Brădăţan is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, most recently, In Praise of Failure. Four Lessons in Humility (2023), and writes regularly for such publications as the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Commonweal, Aeon, and the like.

Camil Ungureanu is Serra Húnter Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Coordinator of MA in Political
Philosophy in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He
has published extensively in the fields of critical theory, contemporary political thought, art and political imagination,
populism, and religious studies.

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