Format:
1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
ISBN:
9780801499548
Series Statement:
Open Access e-Books
Content:
〈p〉Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and other French thinkers. Arguing that the widely shared belief that the boundaries between self and other had disappeared during the Great War helps explain the genesis of the new concept of the self, Dean examines an array of evidence from medical texts and literary works alike. 〈em〉The Self and Its Pleasures〈/em〉 offers a pathbreaking understanding of the boundaries between theory and history.〈/p〉
Note:
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801426605
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801499548
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960- Self and its pleasures Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992
Language:
English
Author information:
Dean, Carolyn J. 1960-
