"In this masterful study which lays out the groundwork for his later corpus, Jean-Luc Nancy examines the emergence of subjectivity as a philosophical event whose advent is decisively shaped by its discursive articulation. Taking to task the attempt to utter through one's mouth rather than merely think the givens of one's existence, he deftly captures the struggle of modern thought to re-envision its modes of being in the margins of philosophy and literature."--Dalia Judovitz, Emory University
First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartesâs 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.
Nancyâs wager is that, at the moment of modern subjectivityâs founding, a foundation that always already included all the possibilities of its own exhaustion, another thought of âthe subjectâ is possible. By paying attention to the mode of presentation of Descartesâs subject, to the masks, portraits, feints, and fables that
populate his writings, Jean-Luc Nancy shows how Descartesâs ego is not the Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that spaces itself out and distinguishes itself.
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Ego Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartesâs philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartesâs ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that opens to utter: ego sum.
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Ego Sum (Opening) Dum Scribo Larvatus pro Deo Mundus est fabula Unum quid
Ego Sum is the most risky, and therefore most philosophically interesting, book concerning Descartes in the last forty years. Like Descartesâs own philosophy, it remains contemporary.
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ISBN
9780823270613
Publisert
2016-05-02
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Fordham University Press
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
P, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
168
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