Waste: A Philosophy of Things
- ISBN-10
- 1472525531
- ISBN-13
- 9781472525536
- Series
- Waste
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-05-22
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- Author
- William Viney
Description
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.
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