Publics and Counterpublics
$103.86
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
20 June 2005
Summary
An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction of modern life informs our literature, politics, and culture.Most of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them as members of our world? We are related to them as transient participants in common publics. Indeed, most of us would find it nearly impossible to imagine a social world without publics. In the eight essays in this book, Michael Warner addre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781890951290 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1890951293 |
| Author: | Michael Warner |
| Publisher: | Zone Books |
| Imprint: | Zone Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 20 June 2005 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Zone Books |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
With Michael Warner’s Publics and Counterpublics, that growing discourse on what constitutes a public (and counterpublic) takes a giant step forward in a provocative collection of eight thematically linked essays that draw upon the author’s wide-ranging and cross-disciplinary knowledge.
—Chuck Berg, Magill’s Literary AnnualMichael Warner
Michael Warner is Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life and The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America.
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