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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524667103321

Autore

Miller Paul Allen <1959->

Titolo

Postmodern Spiritual Practices : The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault / / Paul Allen Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2007

©2007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 270 p.)

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Electronic books.

France Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"50th, 1957-2007, Ohio State", on cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: remaking the soul : antiquity, postmodernism, and genealogies of the self -- The modernist revolt : history, politics, and allegory, or, Classicism in occupied France -- Historicizing transcendence : antigone, the good, and the ethics of psychoanalysis -- Lacan, the Symposium, and transference -- Writing the subject : Derrida asks Plato to take a letter -- The art of self-fashioning, or, Foucault on the Alcibiades : caring for the self and others -- Searching for a usable past.