Subjects of Terror: Nerval, Hegel, and the Modern Self

by Jonathan Strauss

Book Overview

Subjects of Terror uses a reading of the French Romantic poet G rard de Nerval to elucidate and critique a death-based ideology of subjectivity that has remained in force from Kant to Lacan. This model, despite variations, is distinguished by three principal characteristics: that the subject is the self-sameness of individual experience, that as such it functions like language (or, more specifically, like writing), and that this self-sameness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731225
• ISBN13: 9780804731225
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"