[PDF.52yc] The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS

The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS

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 | #3128014 in Books |  Stanford University Press |  1997-02-01 |  1997-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.86 | File type: PDF | 242 pages

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||10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| the politics of inconsolable perversity|By Johnnycakes|It is a pleasure to read such challenging, rewarding and profound thinking in an age of stale academia. Haver's attempt is to think the unthinkable in relation to finitude, community and time - an attempt to approach a body that is both there and not there, both multiple and singular, both erotic and thanatotic. In tr| |“I have, quite simply, not read this kind of writing in which historical trauma and the limits of linguistic representation are probed in just this way. Haver’s work moves from literary criticism to a theory of the social. He suggests that what is

Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history. It argues that those objects which are presumptively given to thought under the rubrics of “AIDS” and “Hiroshima/Nagasaki” pose an essential threat, in their existentiality, to conceptual thought and, ultimately, to...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS   |  William Haver.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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