Signs of Paradox: Irony, Resentment, and Other Mimetic Structures

by Eric Gans

Starting from the minimal principle of generative anthropology--that human culture originates as "the deferral of violence through representation"--the author proposes a new understanding of the fundamental concepts of metaphysics and an explanation of the historical problematic that underlies the postmodern "end of culture."

Part I begins with the paradoxical emergence of the "vertical" sign from the "horizontal" world of appetite. Two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804727694
• ISBN13: 9780804727693
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"