Mad Travellers
May. 11th, 2007 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearMad Travellers by Ian Hacking is the exploration of an outbreak in 1880s France of instances where people would have the urge to simply go travelling, leaving their lives and "coming to themselves" days, weeks or sometimes years later with little idea of where they'd been in the meantime.
Whilst it's an interesting concept, the style, like it's subjects, it meandering, disconnected and rather inconsistent. Hacking's lectures are extremely repetitive, occasionally contradictory and don't seem to go anywhere - he spends a awful lot of time telling the reader what he plans to discuss and very little time actually discussing it.
Perhaps there isn't really a lot you can say about people who randomly wandered off in the 1880s. Certainly not a compelling read.
Whilst it's an interesting concept, the style, like it's subjects, it meandering, disconnected and rather inconsistent. Hacking's lectures are extremely repetitive, occasionally contradictory and don't seem to go anywhere - he spends a awful lot of time telling the reader what he plans to discuss and very little time actually discussing it.
Perhaps there isn't really a lot you can say about people who randomly wandered off in the 1880s. Certainly not a compelling read.
