About the Author

Nitzan Lebovic, Lehigh University, USA; Andreas Killen, City College/Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Reviews

" Catastrophic events - political, economic, environmental -have shaped the 20th century. This volume offers originalmeditations on how the concept of catastrophe assumed amodern form - transforming theology, law, psychiatry, scienceand contemporary public policy."Anson Rabinbach, Professor of History, Princeton University