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Modernity as exception and miracle. / Eduardo Sabrovsky and Javier Burdman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabrovsky J., Eduardo, author.
- Series:
- SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nominalism.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Proposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface to the English Edition
- Preface to the Spanish Edition
- Introduction: From the Transcendental, through the Extraordinary, to "Perpetual Peace"
- 1 Musil's Death
- The Utopia of Exact Living
- 2 The Extraordinary, History
- 3 The Extraordinary, Myth
- 4 The Works of Science
- 5 Nietzsche: The Incombustible in Reason
- 6 The Truth Is That There Is No Truth
- 7 The Endless Sacrifice: Art and the Production of the Extraordinary
- Postscript: The Origin of the World
- 8 Outline for an Ethics of Immortality
- 9 Politics of Space and of the Gaze
- Introduction: To Suffer for the City
- Device I: The Spectacle
- Device II: The Panoptic
- Device III: The Black Box and the Coffin
- Postscript: I'm a Loos-er
- 10 Notes on the Spectrality of Objects
- Postscript: How Easy It Would Be Not to Think of a Tiger!
- 11 Psychoanalysis: The Future of an Illusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438479170
- 1438479174
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