What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use

by Sara Ahmed

Book Overview

In What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word--in this case, use--and following it around. She shows how use became associated with life and strength in nineteenth-century biological and social thought and considers how utilitarianism offered a set of educational techniques for shaping individuals by directing them toward useful ends...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478006501
• ISBN13: 9781478006503
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"