The disconsolation of philosophy: May Sinclair, modernism, and disability

This article presents a new comparison of modernist literature and early twentieth-century philosophy as historically contemporaneous and mutually citational practices. Both offer a critique of the universality of Western reason and the supposed positivity of the natural sciences by reinterpreting t...

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Published in:Textual practice 2020-04, Vol.34 (4), p.563-586
Main Author: Sessions, Gabriel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biopolitics
British & Irish literature
Disability
Disorders
feminism
Fiction
gender
Literary translation
May Sinclair
Modernism
Natural sciences
Novels
Philosophy
Sinclair, May (1863-1946)
Writers
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