The Problem of Distraction

By Paul North

Book Overview

Rejecting the current conflation of distraction with diversion, this book presents the first genealogy of the concept from Aristotle to Kafka, Heidegger, and Benjamin's early twentieth-century use of distraction to revolutionize the humanities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804775389
• ISBN13: 9780804775380
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"