A History of Asking

by Steven Connor

Asking is one of the simplest and most familiar of human actions, and has a right to be thought of as single most powerful and most variously cohering form of social-symbolic gesture. Because so much is at stake in the act of asking, asking, or asking for, almost anything, whether information, help, love or respect, can be asking for trouble, so a great deal of care must be taken with the ways in which asking occurs and is responded. A History...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785421271
• ISBN13: 9781785421273
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Open Humanities Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"