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Vanessa Pupavac. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development
Studies in Social and Global Justice
Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development. Rekindling Faust’s Humanism
Contents
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1Faustian Visions of ‘A Free People Standing on Free Land’
The Faust legend and the European spirit
Plotting Goethe’s Faust
Goethe’s Faustian powers
Goethe’s theatre and politics
Faust’s afterlife in the European imagination
Faust the Developer
The Faustian spirit and European humanism’s future
Outline of study
Chapter 2The Disastrous Birth of Modernity in Europe
Representing disasters from acts of God to acts of nature
Reporting disasters
Kant on the Lisbon earthquake
Goethe on the Lisbon earthquake
Goethe’s politics of scientific improvement
Industrial sublime
Faust’s Byronic child?
Progress or catastrophism?
Chapter 3Faustian Work and ‘The Hope of the Poor’
Kings of spades
Goethe’s Egmont and the Dutch struggle for political freedom
Dutch enlightenment and republican culture
Republic or empire?
Oligarchy and Patriot Revolt
Zuyder Zee project 1920 to 1932
THE CRUEL SEA
Inspiring international development
Chapter 4The Rise and Fall of Faust the Developer
‘A bold new program’ and The Stages of Economic Growth
Ambivalence towards The Stages of Economic Growth
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
Radical critiques of The Stages of Economic Growth
Resisting demands for a New International Economic Order
Berman on Faust the developer
Naturalising politics?
DEMOCRATIZING DEVELOPMENT
Migration and remittances as sustainable development
Chapter 5Nikola Tesla’s Faustian Dream
The Banquet in Blitva
YUGOSLAVIA AND NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT
Demise of Non-Aligned Movement Development
Commissioning Faustian Dams?
Politics of the Kariba dam
Mephistophelian embitterment
Chapter 6The Metamorphosis of Risk Cosmopolitanism
Disaster triumphant
FAUSTIAN WORK? RETREATING SEA DEFENCES
RISK SOCIETY
Emancipatory catastrophism
The ignorant subject of complex adaptive systems
Resilience governance and managing complex adaptive systems
Against Faust
Chapter 7Submerging Humanity and Rewilding Tesla’s Homeland
‘Boundless nature, where shall I grasp thee?’
Tesla’s opposition to the new physics
Djilas on the new physics and scientism
Newtonian and post-Newtonian economic scientism
The redundancy of the Cartesian subject?
Rewilding Europa
Rewilding Tesla’s Velebit
Extinguishing Faustian dreams
Epilogue: The New European Wilderness
Bibliography
Index
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Series Editors:
Ben Holland, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Nottingham
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In the emperor … I have endeavoured to represent a prince who has all the necessary qualities for losing his land, and at last succeeds in so doing. He does not concern himself about the welfare of his kingdom and his subjects; he only thinks of himself and how he can amuse himself with something new. The land is without law and justice; the judge is on the side of the criminals; atrocious crimes are committed with impunity. The army is without pay, without discipline, and roams about plundering to help itself as it can. The state treasury is empty, and without hope of replenishment. In the emperor’s own household, there is scarcity in both kitchen and cellar. (Eckermann 1930 [1 October 1827]: 230)
Into this corrupt state, Mephistopheles entered to counsel and fool the emperor. Previously Mephistopheles had joined drinkers mockingly toasting the Holy Roman Empire, only to trick them with fake alcohol (Goethe, Faust I, 1808, ‘Auerbach Cellar’ in Wayne 1949: 100–110). Their plebeian license was cramped and fickle. Mephistopheles’ alcoholic democracy and paper empire were both illusory and belonged to the trickery of the magicians. Faust pushed for authentic freedom and self-realisation beyond a false demonic vision of liberty. Short-lived happiness was found in ancient Arcadian liberty, with Helen of Troy as his companion temporarily fusing together individuals from across the continent: ‘You, the northern youthful flower, / You, the bright eastern energy’ (Goethe 1832 Act III ‘The Inner Courtyard’ in Constantine 2009: 165). This Arcadian interlude—‘branch of a limb of Europe’s mountain tree’—was precarious and sandwiched between bloody conflicts (Goethe 1832 Act III ‘The Inner Courtyard’ in Constantine 2009: 167).
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