{"product_id":"making-trouble-derek-sayer-9780996635523","title":"Making Trouble: Surrealism and the Human Sciences","description":"Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an \"instrument of knowledge,\" an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis of civilization brought about by World War I, it presented a sustained challenge to scientific rationalism as a privileged mode of knowing. In certain ways, surrealism's critique of white, Western civilization anticipated many later attempts at producing alternate non-Eurocentric epistemologies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eMaking Trouble, \u003c\/i\u003e sociologist and cultural historian Derek Sayer explores what it might mean to take surrealism's critique of civilization seriously. Drawing on a remarkable range of sources, Sayer first establishes surrealism as an important intellectual antecedent to the study of the human sciences today. He then makes a compelling and well-written argument for rethinking surrealism as a contemporary methodological resource for all those who still look to the human sciences not only as a way to interpret the world, but also to change it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Derek Sayer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0996635521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780996635523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Prickly Paradigm Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.80h x 4.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Derek Sayer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43927224746239,"sku":"9780996635523","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_04d5e3de-11d6-495f-b9bd-47bd50081656.jpg?v=1681087585","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-trouble-derek-sayer-9780996635523","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}