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24%OFFTracy McNulty - Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life - 9780231161183 - V9780231161183
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Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life

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Description for Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life Hardback. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3. BIC Classification: HPCF7; JHBA; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Wrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspective. It argues for the enabling function of formal and symbolic constraints in sustaining desire as a source of creativity, innovation, and social change. The book begins by calling for a richer understanding of the psychoanalytic concept of the symbolic and the resources it might offer for an examination of the social link and the political sphere. The symbolic is a crucial dimension of social coexistence but cannot be reduced to the social norms, rules, and practices with which it is so ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
568g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231161183
SKU
V9780231161183
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About Tracy McNulty
Tracy McNulty is professor of French and comparative literature at Cornell University and the author of The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity.

Reviews for Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life
A stellar piece of scholarship whose timely intervention into controversies at the very heart of today's theoretical humanities undoubtedly will draw the admiring attention of large audiences in multiple fields.
Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico A very exciting book, stunningly intelligent and beautifully written. It makes strong, original interventions in a number of current debates and engages with ... Read more

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