Self and Its Pleasure: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject

by Carolyn J. Dean

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801499542

ISBN13:9780801499548

Release Date:November 2016

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Personality Philosophy Psychology

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