Heyes Anaesthetics of Existence

Essays on Experience at the Edge
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0932-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten

Drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience, as well as critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Cressida J. Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and analyzes phenomena that press against them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heyes, Cressida J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Foucault's Limits: Experience at the Edge 27
2. Dead to the World: Rape, Unconsciousness, and Social Media 52
3. Down and Out: Temporality after Discipline 75
4. Anaesthetic Time 97
5. Child, Birth: An Aesthetic 125
Coda 141
Notes 147
References 159
Index 177

Über Autor(innen)

Cressida J. Heyes is H. M. Tory Chair and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Alberta and author of Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies and Line Drawings: Defining Women through Feminist Practice.