David Simpson

Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We re Coming From

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An exciting work, phenomenally erudite, informative, shrewdly and scrupulously argued, and very attractively written in vivid, non-jargony prose spiked with wry wit. "Situatedness "makes a striking contribution to current debates in humanities and social science scholarship, and it will be a touchstone for theoretical commentary in a range of different fields for a good while to come."--Christopher Herbert, Northwestern University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780822328391
• ISBN-10: 0822328399
• Artikelnr.: 22251088

Autorenporträt

David Simpson is G. B. Needham Fellow and Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. His previous books include The Politics of American English and The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
> Introduction
1. Self-Affiliation and the Management of Confusion
2. Mitigating Circumstances: Secular Situatedness and the Law
3. With God on Our Side? The Science of Character
> 4. Literary Situations, Novel Solutions
5. Reasonable Situations: Philosophy, Biography, and Private Life
6. Lost for Words: Can We Stop Situating Ourselves?
Notes
Bibliography
Index