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Description for Awkwardness
Paperback. Argues that the awkwardness of our age is a key to understanding human experience. Num Pages: 89 pages. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 104.
Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the awkwardly unnamed first decade of our young century, dominating comedy on both the big and small screens. Could this trend point toward something deeper? In Awkwardness, Adam Kotsko answers that question with a resounding yes. Drawing on key insights of cultural theory, he argues that awkwardness is a structuring principle of human experience, something that the particular conditions of our time allow us to see with greater clarity than ever before. In an analysis that begins with the difference between the US and UK versions of Ricky Gervais's The Office, ... Read more
Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the awkwardly unnamed first decade of our young century, dominating comedy on both the big and small screens. Could this trend point toward something deeper? In Awkwardness, Adam Kotsko answers that question with a resounding yes. Drawing on key insights of cultural theory, he argues that awkwardness is a structuring principle of human experience, something that the particular conditions of our time allow us to see with greater clarity than ever before. In an analysis that begins with the difference between the US and UK versions of Ricky Gervais's The Office, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
89
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Ropley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846943911
SKU
V9781846943911
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Adam Kotsko
Adam Kotsko is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College, Chicago. He is the author of Zizek and Theology (2008), Politics of Redemption (2010), and Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television (2012). He is the translator of Agamben's The Sacrament of Language (2010), The Highest Poverty (2013), Opus Dei (2013), Pilate and Jesus (forthcoming) and The ... Read more
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