Culture, Politics and Governing: The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production

✍ Scribed by Patricia Mooney Nickel (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 195
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: The Politics of Ascetics and Governing....Pages 1-22
Academies of Exhibition and the New Disciplinary Secession....Pages 23-40
The Man from Somewhere: Author, Affiliation, and Letterhead....Pages 41-69
The Institutionalization of Author Production and the Performance Imperative as an Ontological Fiction....Pages 71-89
Celebration and Governing: The Production of the Author as Ascetic Practice....Pages 91-111
Matterphobia and Matterphilia: Artistic Discourse and Ascetic Production....Pages 113-137
The Conclusion as the Contemporary Ascetic of Knowledge Production....Pages 139-144
Back Matter....Pages 145-191

✦ Subjects

Social Theory; Cultural History; Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Public Law

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