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

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By (author): Carolyn J. Dean

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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Product Details
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Nov 2016
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780801499548

About Carolyn J. Dean

Carolyn J. Dean is Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French at Yale University. She is the author of several books including The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust and Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust both from Cornell and The Frail Social Body: Pornography Homosexuality and Other Fantasies in Interwar France.

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