Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe

by Jacques Lezra

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In groundbreaking readings linking works of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes with contemporary revisions of Freud and Nietzsche, Unspeakable Subjects argues that the concepts and discourses that have come to define European modernity--the subject's extension and responsibility, genealogies of intention and of freedom, the literary, legal, and medical construction of the body, among others--arise as strategies for evading a profound...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804727783

ISBN13:9780804727785

Release Date:June 1997

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:424 Pages

Weight:1.83 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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