Inventions of a Present keyword-organization Thomas Hirschhorn

Thomas Hirschhorn

The Feminist and the Sex Offender contends with two problems that are typically siloed in the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual and gender violence

the nature of pre-state kinship societies

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With an extensive introduction by Adam Hochschild

Inventions of a Present keyword-organization Thomas HirschhornA novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the nave reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best and most intense cases, to propose a wholly new idea of what constitutes an event or of the very experience of living. The most interesting contemporary novels are those which tryand sometimes manageto awaken our sense of a collectivity behind individual