02799nam 22005655 450 991080883910332120230808194146.00-8232-7064-510.1515/9780823270644(CKB)3710000000747386(EBL)4545532(MiAaPQ)EBC5046409(DE-B1597)555193(DE-B1597)9780823270644(OCoLC)1178769381(EXLCZ)99371000000074738620200723h20162016 fg 0engurnn#---|un|urdacontentrdamediardacarrierEgo Sum Corpus, Anima, Fabula /Jean-Luc NancyFirst edition.New York, NY :Fordham University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (167 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-7062-9 Front matter --Contents --Preface to the English Edition --Translator’s Introduction --Ego Sum: Opening --Dum Scribo --Larvatus pro Deo --Mundus Est Fabula --Unum Quid --NotesFirst published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes’s writings, the picture of Descartes as the father of modern philosophy: the thinker who founded the edifice of knowledge on the absolute self-certainty of a Subject fully transparent to itself. While other theoretical discourses, such as psychoanalysis, have also attempted to subvert this Subject, Nancy shows how they always inadvertently reconstituted the Subject they were trying to leave behind. Nancy’s wager is that, at the moment of modern subjectivity’s founding, a foundation that always already included all the possibilities of its own exhaustion, another thought of “the subject” is possible. By paying attention to the mode of presentation of Descartes’s subject, to the masks, portraits, feints, and fables that populate his writings, Jean-Luc Nancy shows how Descartes’s ego is not the Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that spaces itself out and distinguishes itself.Thought and thinkingCogito.Descartes.Discourse on Method.Meditation on First Philosophy.body.fable.soul.subjectivity.Thought and thinking.110Nancy Jean-Lucauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut157114Morin Marie-Eve1612756DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910808839103321Ego Sum4079702UNINA