Is it possible that the depression and feelings of insufficiency academics experience in response to the constant pressures to innovate are symptoms of the university s original ideals? Austrian philosopher and literary and political theorist Armen Avanessian (b. 1973, Vienna) argues in this slim softcover publication that an ethical dimension of knowledge can produce a new reality. Overwrite: Ethics of Knowledge Poetics of Existence is about writing differently in order to situate oneself in the world differently. It is a book about how new truths are produced when a subject takes responsibility for his/her thinking, experiences and conflicts. When a subject rewrites and overwrites itself, it becomes an other, transforming the world in the process. Armen Avanessian is a noted visiting professor of political theory at Yale and Columbia Universities. - from Amzon