Anaesthetics of Existence

Essays on Experience at the Edge

Cressida J. Heyes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0826-2 (ISBN)

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“Experience” is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. At the same time, “the personal is political,” and one's own lived experience is an important epistemic resource. In Anaesthetics of Existence Cressida J. Heyes reconciles these two positions, drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience. If for Foucault an “aesthetics of existence” was a project of making one's life a work of art, Heyes's “anaesthetics of existence” describes antiprojects that are tacitly excluded from life-but should be brought back in. Drawing on critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and she analyzes phenomena that press against those edges. Essays on sexual violence against unconscious victims, the temporality of drug use, and childbirth as a limit-experience build a politics of experience while showcasing Heyes's much-needed new philosophical method.

Cressida J. Heyes is H. M. Tory Chair and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Alberta and author of Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies and Line Drawings: Defining Women through Feminist Practice.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Foucault's Limits: Experience at the Edge 27
2. Dead to the World: Rape, Unconsciousness, and Social Media 52
3. Down and Out: Temporality after Discipline 75
4. Anaesthetic Time 97
5. Child, Birth: An Aesthetic 125
Coda 141
Notes 147
References 159
Index 177

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2020
Zusatzinfo	9 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-0826-1 / 1478008261
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0826-2 / 9781478008262
Zustand	Neuware