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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821804903321

Autore

Gabriel Markus <1980->

Titolo

Mythology, madness, and laughter : subjectivity in German idealism / / Markus Gabriel and Slavoj Žižek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

1-4411-1577-3

1-282-87348-2

9786612873485

1-4411-2187-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

141.0943

Soggetti

Idealism, German

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : a plea for a return to post-Kantian idealism / Markus Gabriel and Slavoj Žižek -- The mythological being of reflection : an essay on Hegel, Schelling, and the contingency of necessity / Markus Gabriel -- Discipline between the two freedoms : madness and habit in German idealism / Slavoj Žižek -- Fichte's laughter / Slavoj Žižek.

Sommario/riassunto

Features three crucial themes in German idealism: mythology, madness and laughter. This book shows how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and necessity, subjectivity, truth, habit and freedom.