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The Self and Its Pleasure: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject
The Self and Its Pleasure Bataille Lacan and the History of the Decentered Subject
Author: Carolyn J. Dean
Why was it France that spawned the radical post-structuralist rejection of the humanist concept of "man" as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds new light on the origins of post-structuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Batai...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801499548
ISBN-10: 0801499542
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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