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OverviewThis book reflects on the meaning of contemporary life in the light of diverse social reactions to AIDS. Drawing on personal interviews with gay men in Montreal, newspaper reports, government action, historical parallels, and other social facts, the author shows what the AIDS phenomenon can reveal about the nature of current reality. Intimate dimensions of experience are explored in order to understand the medical definition of human life, the 'post-modern' character of the contemporary period, and the pervasive influence of technique. The social analysis of AIDS is interwoven with personal, literary, and philosophical reflections that rebound onto the terrain of intimacy, allowing us to see what a critical reading of AIDS as a social phenomenon tells us about the elemental dramas of existence - of love, pain, death, and sex. Represented here is one man's stock-taking of his generation's experience, exploring the social futures that different reactions to AIDS hold out to us. In the tradition of critical thought, the book is a contribution to the understanding which rescues life from the absurd. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen SchecterPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.254kg ISBN: 9780791403341ISBN 10: 0791403343 Pages: 166 Publication Date: 05 July 1990 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"All That Is Left Is the Individual A Preface by Lenore Langsdorf ""Perdido Street Blues"" A Strand of Something More Malign: Medicine, Technique, and Progress Community as Absence Devant la douleur What Makes AIDS a Modern Disease? But Also a Postmodern One Interlude Aron on AIDS: Homosexuality as Absolute Difference No Man's Land On the Importance of Regret Isn't Sex Something Else, Now? Stories In Pain Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps And Still These Words Notes Index"Reviews"""Stephen Schecter has written a powerful account of the AIDS epidemic. The AIDS Notebooks brings together history, AIDS information, and humanistic perspectives for the reader. His writing style is vivid, realistic, and engaging. This book is mandatory reading for all of us concerned about this epidemic."" - A. Gene Copello, Vanderbilt AIDS Project" Stephen Schecter has written a powerful account of the AIDS epidemic. The AIDS Notebooks brings together history, AIDS information, and humanistic perspectives for the reader. His writing style is vivid, realistic, and engaging. This book is mandatory reading for all of us concerned about this epidemic. - A. Gene Copello, Vanderbilt AIDS Project Author InformationStephen Schecter is a Professor of Sociology at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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