Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula

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Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula

First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes'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.

Nancy's wager is that, at the moment of modern subjectivity's founding, a foundation that always already included all the possibilities of its own exhaustion, another thought of "the subject" is possible. By paying attention to the mode of presentation of Descartes's subject, to the masks, portraits, feints, and fables that populate his writings, Jean-Luc Nancy shows how Descartes's ego is not the Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that spaces itself out and distinguishes itself.
Country USA
Brand Fordham University Press
Manufacturer Fordham University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2016-05-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780823270620

Country	USA
Brand	Fordham University Press
Manufacturer	Fordham University Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2016-05-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780823270620

Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula

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