| Description |
xi, 190 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
SUNY series, postmodern culture |
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SUNY series in postmodern culture.
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| Contents |
Sect. 1. The Body Erotic. 1. Fire and Roses. 2. The Stranger as Guest: Toward a Philosophical Site for Postmodern Thinking. 3. Love's New Body. 4. The Magic of Desire. 5. The Intentions of Eros: Popular Cults of Beauty and the Signs of Fashion -- Sect. II. The Body Tragic. 6. The Deconstructive Imagination: Text as Body, Body as Text. 7. The Dialectics of Sacrifice. 8. The Transformation Myth and the End of the "Myth of History" 9. Freud and the Psychoanalytic Enigma -- Sect. III. The Body Transfigurative. 10. Rhythm Is a Dancer |
| Summary |
Covering a wealth of authors and literature from Baudrillard to Foucault, from Freud to Lacan, from Plato to Heidegger, from the study of women's fashion to Girardian perspectives on the sacrificial victim, Fire and Roses shows that the "postmodern theme" is something much more than the play of disconnection and diversity. Postmodernism is, in fact, a kind of "epistemology" of the somatic remainder that has been the "stranger" in the house of Western thought |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Religious aspects.
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Human body.
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Postmodernism -- Religious aspects.
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Postmodernism.
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| LC no. |
95004242 |
| ISBN |
0791427293 |
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0791427307 (paperback) |
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