At odds with AIDS
Subtitle: thinking and talking about a virus
By: Alexander García Düttmann ; translated by Peter Gilgen and Conrad Scott-Curtis.
Series: Meridian, crossing aesthetics; Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Philosophy; AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
Description: What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS? What kind of rupture with history does AIDS represent? How does AIDS and what is said about AIDS relate to gay identity? How does AIDS relate to thinking and acting, particularly deconstructive thinking?

The author confronts these questions from a broad philosophical background that ranges from Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger to contemporary thought concerning gay activism and AIDS research, all brought together in an effort to find a philosophical language capable of doing justice to the singularity of lived experience in the shadow of AIDS.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-144).