At Odds with AIDS: Thinking and Talking About a Virus

by Alexander García Düttmann, Peter Gilgen (Translator), Conrad Scott-Curtis (Translator)

What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS?... The author confronts these questions from a broad philosophical background that ranges from Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger to contemporary thought concerning gay activism and AIDS research.

168 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1996

About the author

Alexander Düttmann is a philosopher with an interest in aesthetics and art, but also in moral and political philosophy. On more than one occasion, he has collaborated with artists. In 2004, the chamber opera Liebeslied / My Suicides, for which I wrote the libretto, and which featured music by Paul Clark and photographs by Rut Blees Luxemburg, opened at the ICA.