Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From

by David Simpson

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"Let me tell you where I'm coming from . . ."-so begins many a discussion in contemporary U.S. culture. Pressed by an almost compulsive desire to situate ourselves within a definite matrix of reference points (for example, "as a parent of two children" or "as an engineer" or "as a college graduate") in both scholarly inquiry and everyday parlance, we seem to reject adamantly the idea of a universal human subject. Yet what does this rhetoric of self-affiliation...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822328399

ISBN13:9780822328391

Release Date:January 2002

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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