(Extra)Ordinary Presence: Social Configurations and Cultural Repertoires

ISBN-13: 9783837627213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 500 str.

Markus Gottwald; Kay Kirchmann; Heike Paul

Opis

Taking its cue from contemporary western debates on presence in the social sciences and the humanities, this volume focuses on "presence" both as everyday experience and as an experience of intense moments. It raises questions about diverse social configurations of presence as well as about the specific cultural repertoires which encode, articulate, and shape discourses of presence. The contributions take as a premise that phenomena of presence are connected to particular forms of knowledge. Especially tacit knowledge (pre)determines experiences of individual and collective presence and becomes tangible in moments of presence or presentification.

O autorze

Markus Gottwald (Dr.) is lecturer in Sociology at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg.Kay Kirchmann (Prof. Dr.) teaches Media Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.Heike Paul (Prof. Dr.) is chair of American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and director of the Bavarian American Academy in Munich. She is project leader of the Global Sentimentality Project and spokesperson of the research training group on »The Sentimental« at FAU. In 2018, she received the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation.