Problem of Distraction

Author/Contributor(s):	North, Paul
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	02/12/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Rejecting the current conflation of distraction with diversion, this book presents the first genealogy of the concept from Aristotle to Kafka, Heidegger, and Benjamin's early twentieth-century use of distraction to revolutionize the humanities.