The Self and Its Pleasures Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject

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...

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Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2016
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