Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe

by Jacques Lezra

Book Overview

In groundbreaking readings linking works of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes with contemporary revisions of Freud and Nietzsche, Unspeakable Subjects argues that the concepts and discourses that have come to define European modernity--the subject's extension and responsibility, genealogies of intention and of freedom, the literary, legal, and medical construction of the body, among others--arise as strategies for evading a profound...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804727783
• ISBN13: 9780804727785
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"