Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From

by David Simpson

Book Overview

"Let me tell you where I'm coming from . . ."-so begins many a discussion in contemporary U.S. culture. Pressed by an almost compulsive desire to situate ourselves within a definite matrix of reference points (for example, "as a parent of two children" or "as an engineer" or "as a college graduate") in both scholarly inquiry and everyday parlance, we seem to reject adamantly the idea of a universal human subject. Yet what does this rhetoric of self-affiliation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822328399
• ISBN13: 9780822328391
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"