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The theorist's mother / Andrew Parker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Andrew, 1953-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motherhood--Philosophy.
- Motherhood.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Andrew Parker undertakes a critical reconsideration of the frequently absent, or troubled, figure of the mother in theorists including Marx, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida.
- Contents:
- Introduction : philosophy's mother trouble
- Mom, encore: rereading, teaching, and "maternal divination"
- Beware the crocodile!
- "Mom"
- Lacan's two bodies
- Do not read
- "Maternal divination"
- History, fiction, and "the author of Waverley"; or, fathers and sons in Marxist criticism
- Family romances
- The prehistory of the present
- The history of the father
- Fictions: of paternity
- "The author of Waverley"
- Translating revolution: Freud, Marx, and the Mameloshn
- The mother of language
- The translator's hand(s)
- Philosophies of translation
- Forgetting the mother tongue
- The Mameloshn
- Coda. other maternities.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613676603
- 9780822395270
- 0822395274
- 9781280699627
- 1280699620
- OCLC:
- 779618128
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