The Culture of Exception: Sociology Facing the Camp

by Carsten Bagge Laustsen, Bülent Diken, Bulent Diken, et al.

Book Overview

We live in an ever-fragmenting society, in which distinctions between culture and nature, biology and politics, law and transgression, mobility and immobility, reality and representation, seem to be disappearing. This book demonstrates the hidden logic beneath this process, which is also the logic of 'the camp'. Social theory has traditionally interpreted the camp as an anomaly, as an exceptional site situated on the margins of society, aiming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415351235
• ISBN13: 9780415351232
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"