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Ego sum : corpus, anima, fabula

Nancy, Jean-Luc (author.). Morin, Marie-Eve, (translator.).

Summary: 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 shows how they always inadvertently reconstituted the Subject they were trying to leave behind. Nancy's wager is that, at the moment of modern subjectivity's founding, a foundation that always already included all the possibilities of its own exhaustion, another thought of "the subject" is possible. By paying attention to the mode of presentation of Descartes's subject, to the masks, portraits, feints, and fables that populate his writings, Jean-Luc Nancy shows how Descartes's ego is not the Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that spaces itself out and distinguishes itself.

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ISBN: 9780823270620
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 138 pages .)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Copyright: ?2016

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Includes blbiographical references. Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface to the English edition -- Translator's introduction -- Ego sum : opening -- Dum Scribo -- Larvatus pro deo -- Mundus est fabula -- Unum quid.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:	Translated from the French.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.