Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism /

Goethe's 1832 play Faust offers a vision of humanity realizing freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European humanist aspirations to build free and prosper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Pupavac, Vanessa (Author), Pupavac, Mladen (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
Series:	Studies in social and global justice.
Subjects:	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832. > Faust. Disasters > Europe. Disasters > Forecasting. Humanism > Europe. Liberty. Europe > Politics and government.

Table of Contents:

1. Faustian Visions of 'A Free People Standing on Free Land'
2. The Disastrous Birth of Modernity in Europe
3. Faustian Work and 'The Hope of the Poor'
4. The Rise and Fall of Faust the Developer
5. Nikola Tesla's Faustian Dream
6. The Metamorphosis of Risk Cosmopolitanism
7. Submerging Humanity and Rewilding Tesla's Homeland
Epilogue: The New European Wilderness.