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Ego Sum - Jean-Luc Nancy

English
2016-05-02
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First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartesโ€™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 at ... Full description

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First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartesโ€™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.Nancyโ€™s wager is that, at the moment of modern subjectivityโ€™s founding, a foundation that always already included all the possibilities of its own exhaustion, another thought of โ€œthe subjectโ€ is possible. By paying attention to the mode of presentation of Descartesโ€™s subject, to the masks, portraits, feints, and fables thatpopulate his writings, Jean-Luc Nancy shows how Descartesโ€™s ego is not the Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that spaces itself out and distinguishes itself.

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Author Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher Fordham University Press
Release year 2016
Cover type Hardcover
EAN 9780823270613
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