The Failed Individual: Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity - Couverture souple

Motyl, Katharina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 359350782X ISBN 13 : 9783593507828

Editeur : Campus Verlag, 2018

Synopsis

The freedom of the individual to aim high is a deeply rooted part of the American ethos but we rarely acknowledge its flip side: failure. If people are responsible for their individual successes, is the same true of their failures? The Failed Individual brings together a variety of disciplinary approaches to explore how people fail in the United States and the West at large, whether economically, politically, socially, culturally, or physically. How do we understand individual failure, especially in the context of the zero-sum game of international capitalism? And what new spaces of resistance, or even pleasure, might failure open up for people and society?

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Katharina Motyl is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Regina Schober is assistant professor in the American Studies Department at Mannheim University in Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Campus Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 359350782X
• ISBN 13: 9783593507828
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 399
• Éditeur: Schober Regina
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• Personne responsable: non disponible