At Odds with AIDS: Thinking and Talking about a Virus

by Alexander García Düttmann

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804724385
• ISBN13: 9780804724388
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"