At Odds With Aids

Thinking and Talking About a Virus

Autor: Alexander Garcia Duttmann

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What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS? What kind of rupture with history does AI...

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Autor

Alexander Garcia Duttmann

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1996

Pagini

164

EAN

9780804724371

ISBN

0804724377

Enbook ID

04716327

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

354

Dimensiuni

223 x 147 x 18

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What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS? What kind of rupture with history does AIDS represent? How does AIDS and what is said about AIDS relate to gay identity? How does AIDS relate to thinking and acting, particularly deconstructive thinking? The author confronts these questions from a broad philosophical background that ranges from Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger to contemporary thought concerning gay activism and AIDS research, all brought together in an effort to find a philosophical language capable of doing justice to the singularity of lived experience in the shadow of AIDS. In examining what AIDS reveals about the conditions of existence, Garc'a D ttmann develops the idea of the dis-unity or at-odds-ness of existence, of the non-belonging that characterizes the marginalized, outcast, or abandoned, and exposes human existence itself. He analyzes what AIDS reveals about the character of history through two intertwined issues. First, he examines arguments bearing on the epochal significance of AIDS, the idea that AIDS reveals something uniquely characteristic of our time, hence that the epidemic marks a historical caesura. Second, he develops a theory of historical witnessing suggesting that the phenomena of historical event and bearing witness are not at all separate, but instead are co-originary, inhering in the same complex.

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