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Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula

Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula

Morin, Marie-Eve
Nancy, Jean-Luc

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Psychology

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ISBN10: 0823270629
ISBN13: 9780823270620
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: May 2 2016
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes's writings, the picture of Descartes as the father of modern philosophy: the thinker who founded the edifice of knowledge on the absolute self-certainty of a Subject fully transparent to itself. While other theoretical discourses, such as psychoanalysis, have also attempted to subvert this Subject, Nancy shows how they always inadvertently reconstituted the Subject they were trying to leave behind.

Nancy's wager is that, at the moment of modern subjectivity's founding, a foundation that always already included all the possibilities of its own exhaustion, another thought of the subject is possible. By paying attention to the mode of presentation of Descartes's subject, to the masks, portraits, feints, and fables that

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