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Mortal Subjects - Passions of the Soul in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought (Paperback)
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Mortal Subjects - Passions of the Soul in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought (Paperback)
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Loot Price R577
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This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship
between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number
of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan,
Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected
connections, Christina Howells draws together the work of prominent
thinkers from the fields of phenomenology and existentialism,
religious thought, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, focussing in
particular on the relations between body and soul, love and death,
desire and passion. From Aristotle through to contemporary analytic
philosophy and neuroscience the relationship between mind and body
(psyche and soma, consciousness and brain) has been persistently
recalcitrant to analysis, and emotion (or passion) is the locus
where the explanatory gap is most keenly identified. This
problematic forms the broad backdrop to the work's primary focus on
contemporary French philosophy and its attempts to understand the
intimate relationship between subjectivity and mortality, in the
light not only of the 'death' of the classical subject but also of
the very real frailty of the subject as it lives on, finite,
desiring, embodied, open to alterity and always incomplete.
Ultimately Howells identifies this vulnerability and finitude as
the paradoxical strength of the mortal subject and as what permits
its transcendence. Subtle, beautifully written, and cogently
argued, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars
interested in contemporary theories of subjectivity, as well as for
readers intrigued by the perennial connections between love and
death.
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