Ostranenie: On Shame and Knowing

M.H. Bowker, Ph.D. is a political theorist and visiting Assistant Professor at Medaille College in Buffalo, NY. Educated at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, his research explores the intersections between political philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and modern literature. He is the author of several scholarly articles and book chapters on the meaning of absurd experience. His first book, Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd: Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity, will be published by Lexington Books, and his newly completed manuscript, tentatively entitled The Survival of Innocence: Absurd Dynamics in Postmodern Thought and Culture, redefines absurdism and compares its fundamental assumptions to those of the postmodern turn.