The Historicity of Experience: Modernity, the Avant-Garde, and the Event

by Krzysztof Ziarek

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking volume, Krzysztof Ziarek rethinks modern experience by bringing together philosophical critiques of modernity and avant-garde poetry. Ziarek explores, through selective readings of avant-garde poetry, the key aspects of the radical critique of experience: technology, everydayness, event, and sexual difference. To that extent, The Historicity of Experience is less a book about the avant-garde than a critique of experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081011836X
• ISBN13: 9780810118362
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"