02720nam 22004575 450 991015472430332120230823004318.00-8047-8094-310.1515/9780804780940(CKB)3710000000971678(MiAaPQ)EBC5412766(DE-B1597)563931(DE-B1597)9780804780940(OCoLC)1178769363(EXLCZ)99371000000097167820200723h20202005 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInheriting the Future Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert /Elizabeth RottenbergStanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]©20051 online resource (xxi, 177 pages)Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics0-8047-5114-5 0-8047-5113-7 Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations and Translations -- Prefatory Note -- Introduction: Of Human Bondage -- § 1 The Legacy of the Future: Kant and the Ethical Question -- § 2 Freud: When Morality Makes Us Sick: Disavowal, Ego Splitting, and the Tragedy of Obsessional Neurosis -- § 3 Flaubert: Testament to Disaster -- Postscript: Last Words -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index This book explores several canonical works of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. The surprising juxtaposition of Kant's moral philosophy, Freud's reflections on obsessional neurosis, and Flaubert's peculiar late novel Bouvard et Pécuchet forms the basis of a compelling argument linking each of these central works around the problem of moral thought as it fundamentally determines the modern subject in relation to time. The book engages an area of emerging importance in contemporary critical thought, the problem of ethics or "otherness" as a crucial factor at play in speculative and literary works. The readings in this book provide insight into the ways in which three fundamental philosophical, psychoanalytic, and literary texts can be reread in light of their confrontation with a seemingly inhuman force at the heart of the foundation of the human subject.Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)Moral conditions in literatureMoral conditions in literature.809/.93353Rottenberg Elizabeth, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1191243DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910154724303321Inheriting the Future2870417UNINA