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Product Details
Author:
Diletta De Cristofaro
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
372
Publisher:
MIT Press (May 26, 2026)
Imprint:
The MIT Press
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9780262052306
ISBN-10:
026205230X
Weight:
15.5oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9" x 1.06"
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Overview
A wide-ranging collection exploring the many meanings of sleep, within the context of the humanities and social sciences.
Sleep has been an object of specialized medical research for more than a century now, yet it is only in the twenty-first century that sleep has become a significant focus across the humanities and social sciences, a growing interest that has been termed critical sleep studies. Featuring essays by leading international scholars, Sleep and Its Meanings is the first collection devoted to this multidisciplinary field. These essays probe the social, cultural, political, historical, philosophical, and aesthetic meanings of sleep. For it is only by considering these meanings that we can begin to understand sleep not just as a biological fact of life but as profoundly intertwined with the world the sleeper inhabits.
The book showcases some of the diverse disciplines that make up critical sleep studies, including both the ones that have been prominent in the field’s development from the outset—sociology, anthropology, history—and those that have turned to sleep only more recently and have therefore been so far underrepresented—literary and cultural studies, as well as studies of arts, design, and media.
Contributors: Alice Bennett, Arianna Cecconi, Amy Chazkel, Simona Chiodo, Christophe de Bezenac, Diletta De Cristofaro, Namita Vijay Dharia, Nicole Eugene, Imma Forino, Aleksandra Kaminska, Dave Lynch, Stuart Murray, Anna Nolda Nagele, Lexie Scherer, Brigitte Steger, Alanna Thain, Nico Wettmann, Simon J. Williams, Martin Willis, Matthew Wolf-Meyer, and Nicole Zillien.
Sleep has been an object of specialized medical research for more than a century now, yet it is only in the twenty-first century that sleep has become a significant focus across the humanities and social sciences, a growing interest that has been termed critical sleep studies. Featuring essays by leading international scholars, Sleep and Its Meanings is the first collection devoted to this multidisciplinary field. These essays probe the social, cultural, political, historical, philosophical, and aesthetic meanings of sleep. For it is only by considering these meanings that we can begin to understand sleep not just as a biological fact of life but as profoundly intertwined with the world the sleeper inhabits.
The book showcases some of the diverse disciplines that make up critical sleep studies, including both the ones that have been prominent in the field’s development from the outset—sociology, anthropology, history—and those that have turned to sleep only more recently and have therefore been so far underrepresented—literary and cultural studies, as well as studies of arts, design, and media.
Contributors: Alice Bennett, Arianna Cecconi, Amy Chazkel, Simona Chiodo, Christophe de Bezenac, Diletta De Cristofaro, Namita Vijay Dharia, Nicole Eugene, Imma Forino, Aleksandra Kaminska, Dave Lynch, Stuart Murray, Anna Nolda Nagele, Lexie Scherer, Brigitte Steger, Alanna Thain, Nico Wettmann, Simon J. Williams, Martin Willis, Matthew Wolf-Meyer, and Nicole Zillien.
