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Author Nielsen, Donald A., 1943-

Title Horrible workers : Max Stirner, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Johnson, and the Charles Manson circle : studies in moral experience and cultural expression / Donald A. Nielsen.

Imprint Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2005.

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 Axe Special Collections Welsh  302.5401 N554h 2005    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xvi, 119 pages ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-113) and index.
Contents Polarity and dialectic in moral experience and cultural expression -- The religion of the transcendental ego: the case of Max Stirner -- Art, anomism, and moral consciousness: the case of Arthur Rimbaud -- Ramblin' for miles around: the life and art of Robert Johnson -- Anomism, puerilism, and the transmoral consciousness: the Charles Manson circle -- Horrible workers in retrospect: comparative and theoretical reflections.
Summary "In Arthur Rimbaud's letter to Paul Demeny, he describes the poet's role as being something like a trickster. But the poet's trick, or joke, is self-directed. A long dissociation of the senses from reality creates, for the poet, a new relationship with reality. But the poet's work with reality is always something like a play at what is real. Play becomes necessary; the poet doesn't just change his or her relationship with reality but, in playing, creates a space for poetics - a space for work. The French poet Arthur Rimbaud, American blues musician Robert Johnson, German anarchist intellectual Max Stirner, and the phenomena of the Manson family circle have all appeared as forms and figures on the invisible horizon described above by Rimbaud."
"Through a reading of Emile Durkheim's Suicide, Donald A. Nielsen locates hitherto unnoticed similarities in the social experiences of each subject featured in these four cases. Sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers of the social sciences, and adherents to cultural studies will find much of interest in Nielsen's study."--Jacket.
Subject Alienation (Social psychology)
Ethics.
Sociology -- Philosophy.
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917 (OCoLC)fst00028702
Alienation (Social psychology) (OCoLC)fst00805268
Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
Sociology -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01123904
ISBN 0739111094 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739111093 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739112007 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780739112007 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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