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Flesh of My Flesh
Kaja Silverman
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What is a woman? What is a man? How do they-and how should they-relate to each other? Does our yearning for wholeness refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? For centuries now, art and literature have increasingly valorized uniqueness and self-sufficiency. The theoreticians who loom so large within contemporary thought also privilege difference over similarity. Silverman reminds us that this is but half the story, and a dangerous half at that, for if we are all individuals, we are doomed to be rivals ... Read more
What is a woman? What is a man? How do they-and how should they-relate to each other? Does our yearning for wholeness refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? For centuries now, art and literature have increasingly valorized uniqueness and self-sufficiency. The theoreticians who loom so large within contemporary thought also privilege difference over similarity. Silverman reminds us that this is but half the story, and a dangerous half at that, for if we are all individuals, we are doomed to be rivals ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804762083
SKU
V9780804762083
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About Kaja Silverman
Kaja Silverman is Class of l940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of James Coleman (2002); World Spectators (Stanford, 2000); Speaking About Godard (1998); The Threshold of the Visual World (1996); Male Subjectivity at the Margins (1992); The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (1988); and The Subject ... Read more
Reviews for Flesh of My Flesh
Flesh of My Flesh is a haunting and quite palpably haunted look at the costs of living in illusions of solitude. Kaja Silverman's thesis, pursued over centuries of artistic work and thought, is that it is in the experience of analogy that an authentic approach to mortality is possible. Above all, her project is to illuminate the ways that the ... Read more