| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) |
| Series |
Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought |
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Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
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| Contents |
FC; Half title; Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought; Title; Copyright; Contents; Translator's Note; Foreword; Affect; Appropriation; Art; Aufhebung; Desire; Ontological differend; Event; Expropriation; Woman; History; Man; Irony; Play; Catharsis; Logic; Evil; Mathematics; Mimesis; Nihilism; Parody; Politics; Representation; Singularity; Science; Techne; Transgression; Appendix: Propreptic to Being and Sexuation; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
A contemporary philosopher of Tunisian origin, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is here published in English for the first time. His new book, Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary, is a comprehensive foray into Kacem''s elaborate philosophical system in twenty-seven discreet chapters, each dedicated to a single concept. In each chapter, he explicates a critical re-thinking of ordinary lived experiences - such as desire, irony, play - or traditional philosophical ideas such as catharsis, mimesis, techne in light of ''the spirit of nihilism'' that marks the contemporary human condi |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Terminology
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Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
Terminology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yalim, P. Burcu
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| ISBN |
9781472526021 |
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1472526023 |
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