Matthew H. BowkerMatthew H. Bowker is Clinical Assistant Professor of Humanities at Medaille College in Buffalo, NY. Educated at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, College Park, he brings psychoanalytic, literary, and intellectual-historical approachs to topics in political theory. He has published numerous papers on social theory, ethics, and pedagogy and is the author of several books on the psycho-politics of contemporary life, including: 'Ideologies of Experience: Trauma, Failure, Deprivation, and the Abandonment of the Self', 'D.W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject' (with A. Buzby), 'Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity: Albert Camus, Postmodernity, and the Survival of Innocence', 'Escargotesque, or, What Is Experience?', 'Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd: Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity', and 'Ostranenie: On Shame and Knowing'. Read More Read Less