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

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

Dean, Carolyn J.

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismCognition

ISBN10: 080142660X
ISBN13: 9780801426605
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Nov 19 1992
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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. The Self and Its Pleasures offers a pathbreaking understanding of the boundaries between theory and history.

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