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Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From
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David Simpson
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Edited by:
Stanley Fish
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English
Published/Copyright:
2002
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A distinguished critic explores the term "situatedness" - the self's position in time and place in the world and its treatment seen in legal theory, social science, literature, and philosophy.
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David Simpson is G. B. Needham Fellow and Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. His previous books include The Politics of American English and The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature.
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“An exciting work, phenomenally erudite, informative, shrewdly and scrupulously argued, and very attractively written in vivid, non-jargony prose spiked with wry wit. Situatedness makes a striking contribution to current debates in humanities and social science scholarship, and it will be a touchstone for theoretical commentary in a range of different fields for a good while to come.”—Christopher Herbert, Northwestern University
“The philosophical nature of the concept of the situation has too often been neglected or overlooked altogether. Simpson has shown remarkable astuteness in identifying ‘situatedness’ in our current discourse, in naming it and revealing its functions. This is a splendid and unique contribution to our awakening from the Zeitgeist and its unconscious presuppostions.”—Fredric Jameson, author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. Self-Affiliation and the Management of Confusion
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2. Mitigating Circumstances: Secular Situatedness and the Law
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3. With God on Our Side? The Science of Character
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4. Literary Situations, Novel Solutions
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5. Reasonable Situations: Philosophy, Biography, & Private Life
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6. Lost for Words: Can We Stop Situating Ourselves?
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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