The Shock of the Same: An Anti-Philosophy of Clichés (Futures of the Archive)

The Shock of the Same: An Anti-Philosophy of Clichés (Futures of the Archive)

Tom Grimwood
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Publication Date: June 1st, 2021
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
9781786614001
Pages:
230
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Description

This book is the first examination of the clich as a philosophical concept. Challenging the idea that clich's are lazy or spurious opposites to genuine thinking, it instead locates them as a dynamic and contestable boundary between 'thought' and 'non-thought'.

About the Author

Tom Grimwood is senior research fellow at the University of Cumbria. He has published on a broad range of topics within the field of cultural hermeneutics, from Nietzschean misogyny to medieval anorexia, and his research has a particular focus on representations of ambiguity within the act of interpretation. He is the author of two books: Irony, Misogyny and Interpretation, and Key Debates in Social Work and Philosophy.

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