The AIDS Notebooks (SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences) - Tapa blanda

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Schecter, Stephen

 
9780791403341: The AIDS Notebooks (SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)
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ISBN 10: 0791403343 ISBN 13: 9780791403341
Editorial: SUNY Press, 1990

Sinopsis

This book reflects on the meaning of contemporary life in the light of diverse social reactions to AIDS. Drawing on personal interviews with gay men in Montreal, newspaper reports, government action, historical parallels, and other social facts, the author shows what the AIDS phenomenon can reveal about the nature of current reality. Intimate dimensions of experience are explored in order to understand the medical definition of human life, the ’post-modern’ character of the contemporary period, and the pervasive influence of technique. The social analysis of AIDS is interwoven with personal, literary, and philosophical reflections that rebound onto the terrain of intimacy, allowing us to see what a critical reading of AIDS as a social phenomenon tells us about the elemental dramas of existence - of love, pain, death, and sex.

Represented here is one man’s stock-taking of his generation’s experience, exploring the social futures that different reactions to AIDS hold out to us. In the tradition of critical thought, the book is a contribution to the understanding which rescues life from the absurd.

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Stephen Schecter is a Professor of Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

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Editorial
SUNY Press
Año de publicación
1990
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0791403343
ISBN 13 
9780791403341
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Número de páginas
180
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9780791403334: The AIDS Notebooks (SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)

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ISBN 10:  0791403335 ISBN 13:  9780791403334
Editorial: State University of New York Press, 1990
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