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Beschreibung
This short book engages the myriad dimensions of Night, through ancient rituals, medieval storytelling, modern philosophy, and futuristic images, in order to explore the human experience of the after-dark. It thereby tracks Night through the prisms of its most fascinating practitioners: namely, those who keep strange hours and navigate the various potentialities of nocturnal experience (both of terror and enchantment). The Thief’s Night; The Runaway’s Night; The Drunkard’s Night; The Insomniac’s Night; The Revolutionary’s Night; The Lunatic’s Night; The Sorcerer’s Night. Undoubtedly, each of these conceptual figures provides a unique gateway into understanding the powerful sensorial effects of evening, as well as its vast connections to larger questions of time, space, fear, nothingness, desire, death, forgetting, vision, secrecy, criminality, monstrosity, and the body.
This short book engages the myriad dimensions of Night, through ancient rituals, medieval storytelling, modern philosophy, and futuristic images, in order to explore the human experience of the after-dark. It thereby tracks Night through the prisms of its most fascinating practitioners: namely, those who keep strange hours and navigate the various potentialities of nocturnal experience (both of terror and enchantment). The Thief’s Night; The Runaway’s Night; The Drunkard’s Night; The Insomniac’s Night; The Revolutionary’s Night; The Lunatic’s Night; The Sorcerer’s Night. Undoubtedly, each of these conceptual figures provides a unique gateway into understanding the powerful sensorial effects of evening, as well as its vast connections to larger questions of time, space, fear, nothingness, desire, death, forgetting, vision, secrecy, criminality, monstrosity, and the body.
Über den Autor
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College. His work focuses on tracking emergent currents of thought in the Middle East and the West, with particular attention given to chaos, violence, sectarianism, disappearance, and apocalyptic writing. Mohaghegh has authored several books and he is the co-editor of the Suspensions book series, which showcases cutting-edge movements in literature, philosophy, culture, and art across non-western regions. He the co-founder of the 5th (Dis)Appearance Lab ([...] Mohaghegh lives in Salem, Massachusetts, USA.
Details
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Empfohlen (von): 5
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781789042771
ISBN-10: 1789042771
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak
Hersteller: Collective Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 139 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2019
Gewicht: 0,163 kg
Artikel-ID: 117821689