Matthew H Bowker

Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity

Albert Camus, Postmodernity, and the Survival of Innocence

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Produktbeschreibung

In Rethinking Absurdity, Matthew H. Bowker offers a surprising account of absurdity as a widespread endeavor to make parts of our experience meaningless. Drawing upon diverse sources from philosophy, literature, politics, psychoanalysis, theology, and contemporary culture, Bowker identifies the absurd effort to make aspects of our histories, our selves, and our public projects meaningless with postmodern revolts against reason and subjectivity. Rethinking Absurdity will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of political science, philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural studies

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415717618
• ISBN-10: 0415717612
• Artikelnr.: 38477878

Autorenporträt

Matthew H. Bowker, Ph.D. is Visiting Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at Medaille College. Educated at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, College Park, he applies psychoanalytic and literary-critical approaches to topics in political philosophy. He is the author of numerous books, journal articles, and chapters, including Ideologies of Experience: Trauma, Failure, Deprivation, and the Abandonment of the Self (Routledge, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Absurd Protest and the Refusal to Mourn. 3.
Absurd Encounters - Interviews on Absurd Experience. 4. Rupture, Absurdity,
and the 'Value of Grief' in the Constitution of Postmodern Communities. 5:
Absurd Terror and Legitimate Violence. 6: Surviving the Absurd and the
Anti-Subject.