Essays about: "Faustian bargain"

Found 1 essay containing the words Faustian bargain.

  1. 1. Financial Crisis and Experience Itself : The Beginning of a Redeeming Story in Iceland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Katarina Landström; [2015]
    Keywords : Iceland; financial crisis; experience; debt fetishism; Faustian bargain; phantasmagoria;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the experience – experience itself – of the economic crisis in Iceland 2008. This exploration takes its starting point in personal stories that together form a mythic narrative about the crisis in which the causes of the crisis are retroactively invented through the construction of a phantasmagoria. READ MORE