Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark

by Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak
ISBN: 9781789042771
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This short book engages the myriad dimensions of Night, through ancient rituals, medieval storytelling, modern philosophy, and futuristic images, in order to explore the human experience of the after-dark. It thereby tracks Night through the prisms of its most fascinating practitioners: namely, those who keep strange hours and navigate the various potentialities of nocturnal experience (both of terror and enchantment). The Thief's Night; The Runaway's Night; The Drunkard's Night; The Insomniac's Night; The Revolutionary's Night; The Lunatic's Night; The Sorcerer's Night. Undoubtedly, each of these conceptual figures provides a unique gateway into understanding the powerful sensorial effects of evening, as well as its vast connections to larger questions of time, space, fear, nothingness, desire, death, forgetting, vision, secrecy, criminality, monstrosity, and the body.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak
  • ISBN: 9781789042771
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.40 x 0.50
  • Number Of Pages: 136
  • Publication Year: 2020
Language: English