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Christina Howells - Mortal Subjects - 9780745652757 - V9780745652757
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Mortal Subjects

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Description for Mortal Subjects Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HPCF; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.

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, ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745652757
SKU
V9780745652757
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Christina Howells
Christina Howells is professor of French at the University of Oxford and fellow of Wadham College.

Reviews for Mortal Subjects
"An admirably clear account of a broad yet focused strand of twentieth-century French thought, and an impassioned yet subtle argument for its incompletion." French Studies "This book constitutes a magisterial study in its scope, the number of authors and perspectives studied, and the exactness and profundity of its aims. It goes as far as possible today in interrogating the ... Read more

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