In the Event: Volume 19

by Wai Chee Dimock, Lloyd Pratt, Jonathan Elmer, et al.

September 11, the subway bombings in Europe, and Hurricane Katrina occurred in rapid succession. The outsized relationship between their historical significance and chronological span also marked these episodes as "events." Focusing on the recent rise of "the event" as a form of experience and its simultaneous reemergence as a central term in critical theory, this special issue of differences links contemporary critical discourse on the event--Badiou,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822366908
• ISBN13: 9780822366904
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.7" x 8.9"