Ego Sum: Corpus, Anima, Fabula

by Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823270629
• ISBN13: 9780823270620
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"