In the Event - In The Event

Informationen zum Autor Lloyd Pratt, special issue editor Klappentext September 11, the subway bombings in Europe, and Hurricane Katrina occurred in rapid succession. The outsized relationship between their historical significance and chronological span also marked these episodes as "events." Focusing on the recent rise of "the event" as a form of experience and its simultaneous reemergence as a central term in critical theory, this special issue of differences links contemporary critical discourse on the event????????????Badiou, Sewell, Derrida????????????to long-standing conversations in philosophy, history, literary studies, media studies, and cultural theory. It also indicates how event analysis might begin to provide an analytic framework different from the conventional modes of historicism currently dominating cultural studies. Zusammenfassung September 11! the subway bombings in Europe! and Hurricane Katrina occurred in rapid succession. The outsized relationship between their historical significance and chronological span marked these episodes as 'events'. This book focuses on the rise of 'the event' as a form of experience and its re-emergence as a central term in critical theory.

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• Authors: Wai Chee Dimock, Jonathan Elmer, Lloyd Pratt, Hayden White
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2008
• EAN: 9780822366904
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6690-4
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 235 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Differences: A Journal of Femi; Special Issue of Differences; Differences: A Journal of Femi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)