Michael Mack is Reader (Associate Professor and tenured Research Fellow) in English Studies and Medical Humanities at Durham University. He is the author of Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers (Bloomsbury, 2014), How Literature Changes the Way we Think (Continuum, 2012), Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: the hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud (Continuum, 2010), German Idealism and the Jew. The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti and Franz Baermann Steiner’s Responses to the Shoah (Niemeyer, 2001).

Mack is a remarkably interdisciplinary scholar who has an all too rare deep learning in philosophy, in literature and film and in contemporary thought and theory. The book is an extraordinary example of genuine interdisciplinarity with firm philosophical foundations from the revisions of the Cartesian and Hegelian roots.

• Introduction: Climate Change and the Contamination of the Anthropocene; 1. Contaminating Psychology with Biology: Descartes, Spinoza, Freud, and Žižek; 2. Contaminating the Visible with the Invisible: from Einstein via H. G. Wells to Hannah Arendt, Luhmann and Derrida; 3. Contamination of Nature with Society: the collapse of natural order from Melville to Wells and Ellison; 4. Contaminating Judgement with its Suspension: Guilt and Punishment in Walter Benjamin, Herman Melville & Henry James; 5. Contaminating the Digital: Action & Perception in Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock; 6. Contaminating the Sacred with the Profane: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bio-politics; 7. Contaminating Posthumanism.

Michael Mack is Reader (Associate Professor and tenured Research Fellow) in English Studies and Medical Humanities at Durham University. He is the author of Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers (Bloomsbury, 2014), How Literature Changes the Way we Think (Continuum, 2012), Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: the hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud (Continuum, 2010), German Idealism and the Jew. The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti and Franz Baermann Steiner’s Responses to the Shoah (Niemeyer, 2001).

Mack is a remarkably interdisciplinary scholar who has an all too rare deep learning in philosophy, in literature and film and in contemporary thought and theory. The book is an extraordinary example of genuine interdisciplinarity with firm philosophical foundations from the revisions of the Cartesian and Hegelian roots.

• Introduction: Climate Change and the Contamination of the Anthropocene; 1. Contaminating Psychology with Biology: Descartes, Spinoza, Freud, and Žižek; 2. Contaminating the Visible with the Invisible: from Einstein via H. G. Wells to Hannah Arendt, Luhmann and Derrida; 3. Contamination of Nature with Society: the collapse of natural order from Melville to Wells and Ellison; 4. Contaminating Judgement with its Suspension: Guilt and Punishment in Walter Benjamin, Herman Melville & Henry James; 5. Contaminating the Digital: Action & Perception in Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock; 6. Contaminating the Sacred with the Profane: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bio-politics; 7. Contaminating Posthumanism.

Michael Mack is Reader (Associate Professor and tenured Research Fellow) in English Studies and Medical Humanities at Durham University. He is the author of Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers (Bloomsbury, 2014), How Literature Changes the Way we Think (Continuum, 2012), Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: the hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud (Continuum, 2010), German Idealism and the Jew. The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti and Franz Baermann Steiner’s Responses to the Shoah (Niemeyer, 2001).

Mack is a remarkably interdisciplinary scholar who has an all too rare deep learning in philosophy, in literature and film and in contemporary thought and theory. The book is an extraordinary example of genuine interdisciplinarity with firm philosophical foundations from the revisions of the Cartesian and Hegelian roots.

• Introduction: Climate Change and the Contamination of the Anthropocene; 1. Contaminating Psychology with Biology: Descartes, Spinoza, Freud, and Žižek; 2. Contaminating the Visible with the Invisible: from Einstein via H. G. Wells to Hannah Arendt, Luhmann and Derrida; 3. Contamination of Nature with Society: the collapse of natural order from Melville to Wells and Ellison; 4. Contaminating Judgement with its Suspension: Guilt and Punishment in Walter Benjamin, Herman Melville & Henry James; 5. Contaminating the Digital: Action & Perception in Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock; 6. Contaminating the Sacred with the Profane: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bio-politics; 7. Contaminating Posthumanism.