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.
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A Philosophy of the After-Dark
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781789042788
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
National Book Network
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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