Between Logos and Eros: New Orleans' Confrontation with Modernity
Description:
This thesis examines the environmental and social consequences of maintaining the artificial divide between thinking and feeling, mind and matter, logos and eros. New Orleans, a city where the natural environment and human sensuality are both dominant forces, is used as a case study to explore the implications of our attempts to impose rational controls on nature - both physical and human nature. An analysis of New Orleans leading up to and immediately following Hurricane Katrina (2005) reveals…
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Date:
May 2008
Creator:
Moore, Erin Christine
Partner:
UNT Libraries