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Contaminations: Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science and Film

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Description for Contaminations: Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science and Film Hardback. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .

Introducesthe figure of contamination as alternative to dialectics
Whereas dialectics separates two entities and traverses from one to the other (finally negating negation), contamination allows for the simultaneous interdependence of what has previously been conceived as separate or opposed. The book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity, action and contemplation, the sacred and the profane. It examines how works of literature and cinema have contaminated constructions of the pure and the immune with their purported opposite. As an advanced critical introduction ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474425599
SKU
V9781474425599
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99-50

About Michael Mack
Michael Mack is Reader (Associate Professor and tenured Research Fellow) in English Studies and Medical Humanities at Durham University.

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