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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826233203321

Autore

Terdiman Richard

Titolo

Body and story : the ethics and practice of theoretical conflict / / Richard Terdiman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, c2005

ISBN

0-8018-9169-8

1-4356-9220-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Theory (Philosophy)

Postmodernism

Enlightenment

Language and languages - Philosophy

Reality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The nun who never was -- On the matter of bodies -- The body and the text -- Materiality, language, and money -- The Enlightenment discovers postmodernism -- The epistemology of difference -- Materiality, resistance, and time.

Sommario/riassunto

In analyzing these shifts he proposes a new model for understanding how seemingly unabridgeable theories legitimately coexist in our intellectual conception of the world, and he suggests a new ethics for managing this coexistence.