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The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS

The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS

Haver, William

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General ParentingGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0804727163
ISBN13: 9780804727167
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Feb 1 1997
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history. It argues that those objects which are presumptively given to thought under the rubrics of AIDS and Hiroshima/Nagasaki pose an essential threat, in their existentiality, to conceptual thought and, ultimately, to rationality altogether. It therefore argues that any serious thinking about AIDS and nuclear terror must think the essential insufficiency of thought to its putative objects--the insufficiency of society to think sociality, the insufficiency of history to think historicity.

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