DREAD/ THE DIZZINESS OF FREEDOM

Dread: The Dizziness of Freedom reflects on possible re-articulations of the concept of dread in our times. Associated with the dizz iness of freedom by Søren Kierkegaard, and with the ecstasy of nihilism by China Miéville, the experience of dread is a defining cha racteristic of the contemporary human condition, and--according to the contributors to this volume--an essential and potentially pro ductive emotion. However dark and fatalistic its connotations, through its dialectical coupling of caution and transgression, of par alysis a...[Read more]