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Making Trouble - Surrealism and the Human Sciences
Derek Sayer
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Paperback. Num Pages: 95 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 114 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge," an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis of civilization brought about by World War I, it presented a sustained challenge to scientific rationalism as a privileged mode of knowing. In certain ways, surrealism's critique of white, Western civilization anticipated many later attempts at producing feminist and postcolonial epistemologies. With Making Trouble, sociologist and cultural historian Derek Sayer explores what it might mean to take ... Read more
Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge," an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis of civilization brought about by World War I, it presented a sustained challenge to scientific rationalism as a privileged mode of knowing. In certain ways, surrealism's critique of white, Western civilization anticipated many later attempts at producing feminist and postcolonial epistemologies. With Making Trouble, sociologist and cultural historian Derek Sayer explores what it might mean to take ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
Number of pages
95
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780996635523
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V9780996635523
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About Derek Sayer
Derek Sayer is emeritus professor of social theory and cultural studies at the University of Alberta and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of several books, including The Coasts of Bohemia and Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century.
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