Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit: Meaning and Astonishment

by Maria Balaska

Book Overview

This book brings together the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Lacan around their treatments of 'astonishment, ' an experience of being struck by something that appears to be extraordinarily significant. Both thinkers have a central interest in the dissatisfaction with meaning that these experiences generate when we attempt to articulate them, to bring language to bear on them. Maria Balaska argues that this frustration and difficulty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030169413
• ISBN13: 9783030169411
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"