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Making trouble : surrealism and the human sciences / Derek Sayer.
Van Pelt Library NX456.5.S8 S29 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sayer, Derek, author.
- Series:
- Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.) ; 52.
- Paradigm ; 52
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surrealism.
- History.
- Surrealism--History.
- Civilization, Western--20th century.
- Civilization, Western.
- Social sciences.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 94 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Prickly Paradigm Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- This book explores what it might mean to take surrealism's critique of civilization seriously. Drawing on a remarkable range of sources, it first establishes surrealism as an important intellectual antecedent to the study of the human sciences today. It then makes a compelling and well-written argument for rethinking surrealism as a contemporary methodological resource for all those who still look to the human sciences not only as a way to interpret the world, but also to change it.
- Contents:
- Making trouble
- An accidental sagacity
- The bureau of Surrealist research
- Systematic bewildering
- The photographic uncanny
- The ethnographic surreal
- An insurrection against history
- Savage civilization
- The anthropology of ourselves
- Surrealist histories
- Anne Boleyn's clock.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-94).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780996635523
- 0996635521
- OCLC:
- 958798773
- Publisher Number:
- 99977018581
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