Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought

by Sharon Sliwinski

Book Overview

What do dreams manage to say--or indeed, show --about human experience that is not legible otherwise? Can the disclosure of our dream-life be understood as a form of political avowal? To what does a dream attest? And to whom? Blending psychoanalytic theory with the work of such political thinkers as Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, Sharon Sliwinski explores how the disclosure of dream-life represents a special kind of communicative gesture--a form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517900433
• ISBN13: 9781517900434
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"