Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge

by Cressida J. Heyes

Book Overview

"Experience" is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. At the same time, "the personal is political," and one's own lived experience is an important epistemic resource. In Anaesthetics of Existence Cressida J. Heyes reconciles these two positions, drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience. If for Foucault an "aesthetics of existence"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478008261
• ISBN13: 9781478008262
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"