Daniel Cottom: 3 books
by Daniel Cottom
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past...
International Bohemia
Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
How did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, cultural...
by Daniel Cottom
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
It is widely acknowledged that the unhuman plays a significant role in the definition of humanity in contemporary thought. It appears in the thematization of "the Other" in philosophical, psychoanalytic, anthropological, and postcolonial studies, and shows up in the "antihumanism"...