| Description |
viii, 212 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Avebury series in philosophy |
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Avebury series in philosophy.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Politics of Subjectivity -- 1. Merleau-Ponty's Situated Subject -- 2. The Situation of the Subject: Merleau-Ponty's Early Social Theory -- 3. Adventuring Beyond the Dialectic: Merleau-Ponty's Later Social Theory -- 4. Humanism, History and Power: Introducing Foucault -- 5. Phenomenology and the Knowing Subject: A Critique of Foucault's Critique -- 6. The Political History of Body and Soul -- Conclusion: Towards a Phenomenology of Power |
| Summary |
A group of strangers, passengers on a day-boat that runs aground, are washed up on an island. Shaken and sodden, they nonetheless make quick work of the situation at hand. But what is the situation? They've invaded the closely protected enclave of an eminent art historian, but their presence seems to rouse in the historian's assistant a long-ripening hunger for company. Certainly the grounding of the boat was an accident, but one of the passengers seem to know the professor and to have an air of purpose about him. Why, as their day on the island progresses, do they seem to inhabit a series of weighty tableaux? And who is the man who moves among them as both spectator and player, the nameless, seemingly haunted narrator whose sensibility is the sometimes clarifing, sometimes distorting lens through which we view the action? |
| Analysis |
English fiction |
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France |
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Philosophy |
| Notes |
"First published in Great Britain 1993 by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. This Minerva edition published 1994 by Mandarin Paperbacks"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) |
| Subject |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.
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Art historians -- Fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Ghost stories.
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Islands -- Fiction.
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Subjectivity.
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Survival -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
94009863 |
| ISBN |
1856288862 |
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