Awkwardness

by Adam Kotsko Shimer Great Books School, North Central College

Overview

Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the unnamed first decades of our young century dominating comedy on both the big and sall screens. Could this trend point towards something deeper? In this book Adam Kotsko answers this question with a resounding yes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846943911
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	11/16/2010
Pages:	89
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Adam Kotsko is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College, Chicago. He is the author of Žižek and Theology (2008), Politics of Redemption (2010), and Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television (2012). He is the translator of Agamben’s The Sacrament of Language (2010), The Highest Poverty (2013), Opus Dei (2013), Pilate and Jesus (forthcoming) and The Use of Bodies (forthcoming). He blogs at An und für sich (itself.wordpress.com).