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Body and story : the ethics and practice of theoretical conflict / Richard Terdiman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Terdiman, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theory (Philosophy).
- Postmodernism.
- Enlightenment.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Reality.
- Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784. Religieuse.
- Diderot, Denis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Body & story
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In analyzing these shifts he proposes a new model for understanding how seemingly unabridgeable theories legitimately coexist in our intellectual conception of the world, and he suggests a new ethics for managing this coexistence.
- Contents:
- The nun who never was
- On the matter of bodies
- The body and the text
- Materiality, language, and money
- The Enlightenment discovers postmodernism
- The epistemology of difference
- Materiality, resistance, and time.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9169-8
- 1-4356-9220-9
- OCLC:
- 646769607
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