Making Trouble: Surrealism and the Human Sciences - Couverture souple

Sayer, Derek

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0996635521 ISBN 13 : 9780996635523

Editeur : Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC, 2017

Synopsis

Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge," an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis of civilization brought about by World War I, it presented a sustained challenge to scientific rationalism as a privileged mode of knowing. In certain ways, surrealism's critique of white, Western civilization anticipated many later attempts at producing alternate non-Eurocentric epistemologies.

With Making Trouble, sociologist and cultural historian Derek Sayer explores what it might mean to take surrealism's critique of civilization seriously. Drawing on a remarkable range of sources, Sayer first establishes surrealism as an important intellectual antecedent to the study of the human sciences today. He then makes a compelling and well-written argument for rethinking surrealism as a contemporary methodological resource for all those who still look to the human sciences not only as a way to interpret the world, but also to change it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Derek Sayer is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta. He is the author of many books, including The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History, and, most recently, Making Trouble: Surrealism and the Social Sciences. He lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0996635521
• ISBN 13: 9780996635523
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
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