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Publics and Counterpublics (Paperback, New edition)
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Publics and Counterpublics (Paperback, New edition)
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An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction
of modern life informs our literature, politics, and culture. Most
of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or
comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them as members of
our world? We are related to them as transient participants in
common publics. Indeed, most of us would find it nearly impossible
to imagine a social world without publics. In the eight essays in
this book, Michael Warner addresses the question: What is a public?
According to Warner, the idea of a public is one of the central
fictions of modern life. Publics have powerful implications for how
our social world takes shape, and much of modern life involves
struggles over the nature of publics and their interrelations. The
idea of a public contains ambiguities, even contradictions. As it
is extended to new contexts, politics, and media, its meaning
changes in ways that can be difficult to uncover. Combining
historical analysis, theoretical reflection, and extensive case
studies, Warner shows how the idea of a public can reframe our
understanding of contemporary literary works and politics and of
our social world in general. In particular, he applies the idea of
a public to the junction of two intellectual traditions:
public-sphere theory and queer theory.
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