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Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula
Jean-Luc Nancy
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Description for Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula
Paperback. Ego Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartes's philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartes's ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that opens to utter: ego sum. Translator(s): Morin, Marie-Eve. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPM; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
250g
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823270620
SKU
V9780823270620
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About Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including Expectation: Philosophy, Literature; The Possibility of a World; The Banality of Heidegger; The Disavowed Community; and, with Adele Van Reeth, Coming (all Fordham). Marie-Eve Morin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta in Canada. She ... Read more
Reviews for Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula
Ego Sum is the most risky, and therefore most philosophically interesting, book concerning Descartes in the last forty years. Like Descartes's own philosophy, it remains contemporary.
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