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Peter Y. Paik - Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy - 9780253009388 - V9780253009388
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Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy

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Description for Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy Paperback. Explores the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives Editor(s): Paik, Peter Y.; Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Series: 21st Century Studies. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCS; KJG; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 378.

From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic and literary creativity involves the artist's dialogue with the works of the past; and that the specter of catastrophic climate change has underscored the debt those living in the present owe to future generations.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Series
21st Century Studies
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253009388
SKU
V9780253009388
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About Peter Y. Paik
Peter Y. Paik is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is author of From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe and editor (with Marcus Bullock) of Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered. Merry Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her books include The Renaissance and Reformation: A History in Documents, The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds, and Religious Transformations in the Early Modern World: A Brief Study with Documents.

Reviews for Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy
"This edited collection adds a welcome range of new perspectives on what has become a central issue for contemporary debate. One strength of the collection is the way in which it draws together research from a very diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds, meaning that even a reader who considers themselves to be an expert in this topic within a particular disciplinary field is likely to find something that provokes new questions and insights."—Anthropological Notebooks "A very timely volume, exploring the focal issue of our times through a variety of approaches, including philosophical, political, anthropological and literary. . . . By linking economics and the environment, the volume is a serious attempt to reformulate the significant narrative of our times and its historical emergence, leaving behind so many other issues that were purely a matter of intellectual fashion: this volume tells us of the predicament we have to get to grips with."—Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham, author of Theology of Money and Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety "Philosophically broad and deep at the same time. . . . [I]t's high time we rethought what we mean when we talk about debt. This is for the simple reason that the warm fuzzy ignorance enforced by neoliberalism has contributed very significantly to the current ecological emergency, while on the other hand monetarism is now eating the societies that spawned it, a classic case of autoimmunity. That the editors think these two facts together is really, really good. . . . [T]he most enjoyable collection of essays I've read in a while."—Timothy Morton, University of California, Davis, author of The Ecological Thought and Ecology without Nature

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