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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450353303321

Autore

Belsey Catherine

Titolo

Culture and the real : theorizing cultural criticism / / atherine Belsey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-52721-7

1-280-10183-0

0-203-00144-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

New accents

Classificazione

02.02

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Culture

Reality

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; What's Real? Butler, Fish, Lyotard; Psychoanalysis Beyond Idealism: Hegel, Lacan, Freud; The Lacanian Real; iek Against Lacan; Culture's Magic Circle; Making Space: Perspective Vision and the Real; Desire and the Missing Viewer; The Real and the Sublime: Kant, Lyotard, Lacan; Sublime or Sublimation? Towards a Theory of Culture; FURTHER READING; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX;

Sommario/riassunto

What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is the foundation of culture, others that culture is the foundation of human identity.