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World spectators / Kaja Silverman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silverman, Kaja.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Phenomenalism.
- Appearance (Philosophy).
- Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
- Vision.
- Physical Description:
- x, 177 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Combining phenomenoogy and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Plato' s parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be called " world love, " the possibility and necessity for psychic survival of a profound and vital erotic investment by a human being in the cosmic surround.
- Contents:
- 1 Seeing for the Sake of Seeing 1
- 2 Eating the Book 29
- 3 Listening to Language 51
- 4 Apparatus for the Production of an Image 75
- 5 The Milky Way 101
- 6 The Language of Things 127.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-174) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804738319
- 0804738327
- OCLC:
- 44427275
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