The subaltern appeal to experience : self-identity, late modernity, and the politics of immediacy / Craig Ireland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ireland, Craig, 1963-

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 36.

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experience.

Historicism.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 208 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Combining historical findings with discourse analyses and diagnostic readings of recent subaltern and aesthetic inquiry, Ireland reveals that the term experience has been incorrectly understood. Since the 1970s, persistent appeals to experience in identity politics and cultural inquiry testify not only to the influence of a particular modern concept but, more importantly, to the historical status of modern self-identity.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Appeal of Immediate Experience

The Mediacy of Experience

Experience and the Prospective Gaze to the Future

Experience and the Retrospective Glance to the Past

Experience and the Temporal Logic of Late Modernity

Reassessing Experience

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-199) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86282-0

9786612862823

0-7735-7214-7

OCLC:

929120655